block: use fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) & fallocate(0) to write zeroes
This sequence works efficiently if FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE is not supported. Unfortunately, FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE is supported on really modern systems and only for a couple of filesystems. FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE is much more mature. The sequence of 2 operations FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE and 0 is necessary due to the following reasons: - FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE creates a hole in the file, the file becomes sparse. In order to retain original functionality we must allocate disk space afterwards. This is done using fallocate(0) call - fallocate(0) without preceeding FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE will do nothing if called above already allocated areas of the file, i.e. the content will not be zeroed This should increase the performance a bit for not-so-modern kernels. CC: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> CC: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> CC: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de> CC: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NDenis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: NMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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