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Diffstat (limited to 'include/block')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/block/block.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/block/block.h b/include/block/block.h index 8ba9f0c80f..1f30a56fb0 100644 --- a/include/block/block.h +++ b/include/block/block.h @@ -65,6 +65,13 @@ typedef struct BlockDevOps { typedef enum { BDRV_REQ_COPY_ON_READ = 0x1, BDRV_REQ_ZERO_WRITE = 0x2, + /* The BDRV_REQ_MAY_UNMAP flag is used to indicate that the block driver + * is allowed to optimize a write zeroes request by unmapping (discarding) + * blocks if it is guaranteed that the result will read back as + * zeroes. The flag is only passed to the driver if the block device is + * opened with BDRV_O_UNMAP. + */ + BDRV_REQ_MAY_UNMAP = 0x4, } BdrvRequestFlags; #define BDRV_O_RDWR 0x0002 |