[libvirt] [libvirt PATCH] qemu: Support discard for disk

[Martin Kletzander]

On 05/14/2013 02:44 PM, Osier Yang wrote:
> QEMU introduced "discard" option for drive since commit a9384aff53,
> 
> <...>
> @var{discard} is one of "ignore" (or "off") or "unmap" (or "on") and
> controls whether @dfn{discard} (also known as @dfn{trim} or @dfn{unmap})
> requests are ignored or passed to the filesystem.  Some machine types
> may not support discard requests.
> </...>
> 
> This patch exposes the support in libvirt.
> 
> QEMU supported "discard" for "-drive" since v1.5.0-rc0:
> 
> % git tag --contains a9384aff53
> contains
> v1.5.0-rc0
> v1.5.0-rc1
> 
> So this only detects the capability bit using virQEMUCapsProbeQMPCommandLine.
> 

ACK,

Martin