From nobody Tue Nov 4 23:50:11 2025 Delivered-To: importer@patchew.org Received-SPF: pass (zoho.com: domain of gnu.org designates 208.118.235.17 as permitted sender) client-ip=208.118.235.17; envelope-from=qemu-devel-bounces+importer=patchew.org@nongnu.org; helo=lists.gnu.org; Authentication-Results: mx.zohomail.com; spf=pass (zoho.com: domain of gnu.org designates 208.118.235.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=qemu-devel-bounces+importer=patchew.org@nongnu.org; dmarc=fail(p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Return-Path: Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [208.118.235.17]) by mx.zohomail.com with SMTPS id 1531413288000889.9681706373641; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 09:34:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([::1]:32988 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdeYF-0005zI-TQ for importer@patchew.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:34:43 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56690) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdeVg-0004cS-Jn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:32:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdeVf-00063b-O4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:32:04 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:40538 helo=mx1.redhat.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdeVd-00061X-Kg; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:32:01 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A82D14B398; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:32:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain.com (ovpn-117-16.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.117.16]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 624092026D76; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:32:00 +0000 (UTC) From: Kevin Wolf To: qemu-block@nongnu.org Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 18:31:48 +0200 Message-Id: <20180712163152.12521-4-kwolf@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20180712163152.12521-1-kwolf@redhat.com> References: <20180712163152.12521-1-kwolf@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.11.54.4 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.1]); Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:32:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.1]); Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:32:01 +0000 (UTC) for IP:'10.11.54.4' DOMAIN:'int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com' HELO:'smtp.corp.redhat.com' FROM:'kwolf@redhat.com' RCPT:'' X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 66.187.233.73 Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 3/7] qemu-img: Document copy offloading implications with -S and -c X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, peter.maydell@linaro.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+importer=patchew.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" X-ZohoMail: RSF_0 Z_629925259 SPT_0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: Fam Zheng Explicitly enabling zero detection or compression suppresses copy offloading during convert. Document it. Suggested-by: Kevin Wolf Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf --- qemu-img.texi | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/qemu-img.texi b/qemu-img.texi index aeb1b9e66c..5853cd18d1 100644 --- a/qemu-img.texi +++ b/qemu-img.texi @@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ will enumerate information about backing files in a disk = image chain. Refer below for further description. =20 @item -c -indicates that target image must be compressed (qcow format only) +indicates that target image must be compressed (qcow format only). If this +option is used, copy offloading will not be attempted. =20 @item -h with or without a command shows help and lists the supported formats @@ -115,7 +116,8 @@ in case both @var{-q} and @var{-p} options are used. indicates the consecutive number of bytes that must contain only zeros for qemu-img to create a sparse image during conversion. This value is rou= nded down to the nearest 512 bytes. You may use the common size suffixes like -@code{k} for kilobytes. +@code{k} for kilobytes. If this option is used, copy offloading will not be +attempted. =20 @item -t @var{cache} specifies the cache mode that should be used with the (destination) file. = See --=20 2.13.6