On 11/14/2016 09:54 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:

>>>> Our qcow2 support is currently limited to a maximum of 2M clusters;
>>>> while MAX_WRITE_ZEROES_BOUNCE_BUFFER is 32k * 512, or 16M.  The
>>>> maximum-size bounce buffer should not be the problem here; but for some
>>>> reason, it looks like alignment is larger than max_transfer which should
>>>> not normally be possible.  I'm still playing with what should be the
>>>> right patch, but hope to have something posted soon.
>>>
>>> Are you still playing with it?
>>
>> Patch was posted here:
>>
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg01603.html
> 
> Ah, yes, sorry. I didn't make the connection today because this one had
> qcow2 in the subject line and the patch doesn't.
> 
> Are you going to add a qemu-iotests case then, or do you want us to
> merge the patch as it is?

I think the patch is ready to merge as-is; I'm still adding a
qemu-iotests addition, but the addition requires enhancing blkdebug
which is a bit extreme to be doing after soft freeze (so the tests are
probably 2.9 material, while the bug fix is still for 2.8)

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