Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH for-2.7 v5 00/14] nbd: efficient write zeroes

[Paolo Bonzini]

> The upstream NBD protocol is proposing an extension for efficient
> write zeroes; having a qemu implementation will be one of the reasons
> to promote the proposal from experimental to standard:
> https://github.com/yoe/nbd/blob/extension-write-zeroes/doc/proto.md
> 
> v4 was here:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg07463.html
> 
> Prerequisites:
> v3 Auto-fragment large transactions at the block layer:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg03550.html
> v2 byte-based block discard:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg03592.html
> 
> Also available as a tag at:
> git fetch git://repo.or.cz/qemu/ericb.git nbd-zero-v5
> 
> changes since v4:
> - patch 2 - Rebase to latest
> - patch 6, 10 - Address review comments [Paolo]
> - patch 14 - Update commit message to address review comments [Paolo]

I'm sorry, it's too late for 2.7 now.

Paolo