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nbd: handle discard requests
authorPaul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Fri, 7 Sep 2012 00:25:09 +0000 (10:25 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 7 Sep 2012 05:36:37 +0000 (15:36 +1000)
commit839bd6e003f4216018ccee203659c14e5aecaed9
treeccb2d467b4aa17a3ad0a5060e505187bb393aeb1
parent855575371787b924b9ca0017c3603afa626c883c
nbd: handle discard requests

Add discard support to nbd.  If the nbd-server supports discard, it will
send NBD_FLAG_SEND_TRIM to the client.  The client will then set the flag
in the kernel via NBD_SET_FLAGS, which tells the kernel to enable discards
for the device (QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD).

If discard support is enabled, then when the nbd client system receives a
discard request, this will be passed along to the nbd-server.  When the
discard request is received by the nbd-server, it will perform:

fallocate(.. FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE ..)

To punch a hole in the backend storage, which is no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/block/nbd.c
include/linux/nbd.h