From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@gmail.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, gilad@codefidence.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] [BLOCK] Add 'discard' request handling
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:05:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080810010541.GB20183@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1218199792.12232.154.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
David Woodhouse wrote:
> Can we get away with representing discards as 'writes without buffers'?
That seems like a very good idea. They have the same requirements as
writes w.r.t. barriers and merges/discards.
I can imagine situations where a filesystem wants discards to work
with barrier requests in exactly the same way as writes.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-10 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <488B7281.4020007@gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20080726130200.f541e604.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-05 1:45 ` [RFC] 'discard sectors' block request David Woodhouse
2008-08-05 1:59 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-05 9:01 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-05 11:42 ` Jens Axboe
2008-08-05 13:32 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-05 14:21 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-08-05 16:29 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-05 17:25 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-06 9:25 ` [PATCH 1/5] [BLOCK] Add 'discard' request handling David Woodhouse
2008-08-06 16:19 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-08-06 18:18 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-06 19:28 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-08-07 16:32 ` [PATCH 1/5, v2] " David Woodhouse
2008-08-07 18:41 ` [PATCH 1/5] " Jens Axboe
2008-08-08 9:33 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-08 10:30 ` Jens Axboe
2008-08-08 10:49 ` Jens Axboe
2008-08-08 11:04 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-08 11:20 ` Jens Axboe
2008-08-08 10:52 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-08 11:09 ` Jens Axboe
2008-08-08 11:18 ` Jens Axboe
2008-08-08 11:29 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-08 11:44 ` Jens Axboe
2008-08-08 11:47 ` Jens Axboe
2008-08-08 12:05 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-08 12:13 ` Jens Axboe
2008-08-08 12:32 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-08 12:37 ` Jens Axboe
2008-08-08 12:49 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-10 1:05 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2008-08-08 15:32 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-08 14:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-08 14:27 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-08 14:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-06 9:25 ` [PATCH 2/5] [FAT] Let the block device know when sectors can be discarded David Woodhouse
2008-08-06 16:40 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-08-06 17:14 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-08-06 18:11 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-06 19:10 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-08-06 19:50 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-08-06 20:10 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-08-06 21:37 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-07 16:09 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-07 16:33 ` [PATCH 2/5, v2] " David Woodhouse
2008-08-06 9:25 ` [PATCH 3/5] [MTD] Support 'discard sectors' operation in translation layer support core David Woodhouse
2008-08-06 9:25 ` [PATCH 4/5] [MTD] [FTL] Support 'discard sectors' operation David Woodhouse
2008-08-06 9:25 ` [PATCH 5/5] [BLOCK] Fix up comments about matching flags between bio and rq David Woodhouse
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20080810010541.GB20183@shareable.org \
--to=jamie@shareable.org \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=dwmw2@infradead.org \
--cc=gilad@codefidence.com \
--cc=jens.axboe@oracle.com \
--cc=linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=ricwheeler@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.