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author | Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> | 2012-10-04 20:16:18 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-05 14:05:24 -0400 |
commit | a336d29870f8a1f8e5f10d9f1aa95531c4edeabe (patch) | |
tree | 9957b7a2dbdc5047fe1f2be7907f90f5bdb6fbf0 /include/linux/nbd.h | |
parent | 2f012508880f8037590372c24ca6e8b6af8fffb6 (diff) |
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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/nbd.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/nbd.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/nbd.h b/include/linux/nbd.h index 4b8ed5a1cfb0..5c86e2b33e2d 100644 --- a/include/linux/nbd.h +++ b/include/linux/nbd.h | |||
@@ -32,12 +32,16 @@ | |||
32 | enum { | 32 | enum { |
33 | NBD_CMD_READ = 0, | 33 | NBD_CMD_READ = 0, |
34 | NBD_CMD_WRITE = 1, | 34 | NBD_CMD_WRITE = 1, |
35 | NBD_CMD_DISC = 2 | 35 | NBD_CMD_DISC = 2, |
36 | /* there is a gap here to match userspace */ | ||
37 | NBD_CMD_TRIM = 4 | ||
36 | }; | 38 | }; |
37 | 39 | ||
38 | /* values for flags field */ | 40 | /* values for flags field */ |
39 | #define NBD_FLAG_HAS_FLAGS (1 << 0) /* nbd-server supports flags */ | 41 | #define NBD_FLAG_HAS_FLAGS (1 << 0) /* nbd-server supports flags */ |
40 | #define NBD_FLAG_READ_ONLY (1 << 1) /* device is read-only */ | 42 | #define NBD_FLAG_READ_ONLY (1 << 1) /* device is read-only */ |
43 | /* there is a gap here to match userspace */ | ||
44 | #define NBD_FLAG_SEND_TRIM (1 << 5) /* send trim/discard */ | ||
41 | 45 | ||
42 | #define nbd_cmd(req) ((req)->cmd[0]) | 46 | #define nbd_cmd(req) ((req)->cmd[0]) |
43 | 47 | ||