On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 3:05 AM, Piotr Dałek <piotr.da...@corp.ovh.com> wrote:
> I saw that RBD (librbd) does that - replacing writes with discards when
> buffer contains only zeros. Some code that does the same in librados could
> be added and it shouldn't impact performance much, current implementation of
> mem_is_zero is fast and shouldn't be a big problem.

I'm pretty sure the only place where librbd converts a write to a
discard is actually the specialized "writesame" operation used by
tcmu-runner, as an optimization for ESX's initialization of a new
image.

-- 
Jason
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