From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] dm: relax discard restrictions
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:19:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110427151911.GF7294@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110427150623.GC13487@infradead.org>
On Wed, Apr 27 2011 at 11:06am -0400,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> With targets like dm-thinp we might want to allow discard even if the
> underlying devices don't support them natively. This patch is the
> extreme variant of not restricting discard support at all, but maybe
> there are other options. Or maybe we should keep the old
> dm_table_supports_discards function as a helper for targets that
> want simple discard passthrough?
I think we could accomplish the same by adding a target override flag
(e.g. ti->discards_supported) that enables dm_table_supports_discards()
to short-circuit device_discard_capable's native discard checking.
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-27 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-27 15:06 [PATCH, RFC] dm: relax discard restrictions Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-27 15:19 ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2011-04-27 21:55 ` [PATCH] dm: allow a target to " Mike Snitzer
2011-04-28 8:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-28 15:04 ` Mike Snitzer
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