On 05/14/2013 02:44 PM, Osier Yang wrote:
QEMU introduced "discard" option for drive since commit
a9384aff53,
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@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.
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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