Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758557Ab2BNAKb (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:10:31 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:58967 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756100Ab2BNAK3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:10:29 -0500 From: Rusty Russell To: Paolo Bonzini , James Bottomley Cc: Christian Hoff , BORNTRAE@linux.vnet.ibm.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com Subject: Re: Pe: [PATCH v5 1/3] virtio-scsi: first version In-Reply-To: <4F38D5BC.8010705@redhat.com> References: <4F30F4EE.4080607@redhat.com> <4F311154.9080407@de.ibm.com> <4F3119A0.7080005@redhat.com> <4F312492.1040002@de.ibm.com> <4F313526.2050907@redhat.com> <4F3390FB.80107@redhat.com> <1329077777.21613.60.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> <4F38D5BC.8010705@redhat.com> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.6.1-1 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:37:46 +1030 Message-ID: <87ipjacm5p.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 695 Lines: 17 On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:19:56 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > block layer _is_ growing support for new operations: discard is already > there, write same is in the works, extended copy will also come in due > time. Perhaps we'll add them to virtio-blk, perhaps not. FYI, I'd take patches for discard in virtio_blk today; it's a no-brainer in a virtual devoce. But I wouldn't want extended copy and write same. Thanks, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/