From: Hyman Huang(黄勇) <yong.huang(a)smartx.com>
Signed-off-by: Hyman Huang(黄勇) <yong.huang(a)smartx.com>
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NEWS.rst | 8 ++++++++
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* **New features**
+ * qemu: Introducing ``discard`` and ``write_zeroes`` features of virtio-blk device
+
+ The optional ``virtio_discard`` and ``virtio_write_zeroes`` attributes
+ control whether discard and write-zeroes requests are handled by the
+ virtio-blk device. The feature is based on DISCARD and WRITE_ZEROES commands
+ introduced in virtio-blk protocol to improve performance when using SSD
+ backend.
+
* **Improvements**
* apparmor: All profiles and abstractions now support local overrides
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