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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: add FITRIM support
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 11:15:18 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110104001518.GG15179@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110102072202.GA26488@infradead.org>

On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 02:22:02AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Allow manual discards from userspace using the FITRIM ioctl.  This is not
> intended to be run during normal workloads, as the freepsace btree walks
> can cause large performance degradation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> 
> ---
> 
> V1 -> V2
>  
>  - added __user annotations as noted by Alex
>  - removed non-blocking agf read as noted by Alex
>  - update range->len as noted by Alex
> 
> This does not implement the by-bno search or lock break suggestions from
> Dave.  Given that the 2.6.38 window is about to close those seem a bit
> risky to me.  I'll look into these later.

Ok, seemms like a good way to proceed.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-04  0:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-02  7:22 [PATCH] xfs: add FITRIM support Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-04  0:15 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2011-01-04 21:55 ` Alex Elder
2011-01-06 18:03   ` Christoph Hellwig

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