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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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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clemep-sios authored and torvalds committed Oct 5, 2012
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15 changes: 14 additions & 1 deletion drivers/block/nbd.c
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Expand Up @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ static const char *nbdcmd_to_ascii(int cmd)
case NBD_CMD_READ: return "read";
case NBD_CMD_WRITE: return "write";
case NBD_CMD_DISC: return "disconnect";
case NBD_CMD_TRIM: return "trim/discard";
}
return "invalid";
}
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nbd_cmd(req) = NBD_CMD_READ;
if (rq_data_dir(req) == WRITE) {
nbd_cmd(req) = NBD_CMD_WRITE;
if ((req->cmd_flags & REQ_DISCARD)) {
WARN_ON(!(nbd->flags & NBD_FLAG_SEND_TRIM));
nbd_cmd(req) = NBD_CMD_TRIM;
} else
nbd_cmd(req) = NBD_CMD_WRITE;
if (nbd->flags & NBD_FLAG_READ_ONLY) {
dev_err(disk_to_dev(nbd->disk),
"Write on read-only\n");
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mutex_unlock(&nbd->tx_lock);

if (nbd->flags & NBD_FLAG_SEND_TRIM)
queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD,
nbd->disk->queue);

thread = kthread_create(nbd_thread, nbd, nbd->disk->disk_name);
if (IS_ERR(thread)) {
mutex_lock(&nbd->tx_lock);
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nbd->file = NULL;
nbd_clear_que(nbd);
dev_warn(disk_to_dev(nbd->disk), "queue cleared\n");
queue_flag_clear_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD, nbd->disk->queue);
if (file)
fput(file);
nbd->bytesize = 0;
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* Tell the block layer that we are not a rotational device
*/
queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, disk->queue);
disk->queue->limits.discard_granularity = 512;
disk->queue->limits.max_discard_sectors = UINT_MAX;
disk->queue->limits.discard_zeroes_data = 0;
}

if (register_blkdev(NBD_MAJOR, "nbd")) {
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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion include/linux/nbd.h
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Expand Up @@ -32,12 +32,16 @@
enum {
NBD_CMD_READ = 0,
NBD_CMD_WRITE = 1,
NBD_CMD_DISC = 2
NBD_CMD_DISC = 2,
/* there is a gap here to match userspace */
NBD_CMD_TRIM = 4
};

/* values for flags field */
#define NBD_FLAG_HAS_FLAGS (1 << 0) /* nbd-server supports flags */
#define NBD_FLAG_READ_ONLY (1 << 1) /* device is read-only */
/* there is a gap here to match userspace */
#define NBD_FLAG_SEND_TRIM (1 << 5) /* send trim/discard */

#define nbd_cmd(req) ((req)->cmd[0])

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