Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Optimize sparse reads over NBD

2017-11-07 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 07/11/2017 04:09, Eric Blake wrote: > When I first proposed the NBD extension of structured reads, > it was in order to more efficiently read sparse files without > sending lots of zeroes over the wire. These two patches feel > like a feature addition, and missed soft freeze, so I'm > reluctant

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Optimize sparse reads over NBD

2017-11-06 Thread Eric Blake
When I first proposed the NBD extension of structured reads, it was in order to more efficiently read sparse files without sending lots of zeroes over the wire. These two patches feel like a feature addition, and missed soft freeze, so I'm reluctant to include them in a 2.11 pull request; on the o