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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Julian Andres Klode <jak@jak-linux.org>,
	Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@kepstin.ca>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please help: Is ext4 counting trims as writes, or is something killing my SSD?
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:28:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130912152845.GG12918@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130912151955.GA19285@jak-x230>

Ext4 is getting this information from the block layer.  Specifically,
it's calling

	part_stat_read(bd_part, sectors[WRITE])

to get the statistics information it uses to caluclate how many kb
have been written.

I'm not a block layer expert, but it may very well be the case that
TRIMS are being counted as requests.  Requests are categorized as
either READS or WRITES, and I don't see any special casing for non r/w
requests in block/blk-core.c.

Regards,

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-12 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-12 14:18 Please help: Is ext4 counting trims as writes, or is something killing my SSD? Julian Andres Klode
2013-09-12 14:26 ` Julian Andres Klode
2013-09-12 14:54 ` Calvin Walton
2013-09-12 15:03   ` Julian Andres Klode
2013-09-12 15:18   ` Eric Sandeen
2013-09-12 15:29     ` Calvin Walton
2013-09-12 15:33       ` Eric Sandeen
2013-09-12 15:32     ` Julian Andres Klode
2013-09-12 15:52       ` Eric Sandeen
2013-09-12 18:47         ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-13 13:41           ` Ric Wheeler
2013-09-13 13:38     ` Ric Wheeler
2013-09-12 15:19   ` Julian Andres Klode
2013-09-12 15:28     ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2013-09-12 15:29   ` Lukáš Czerner

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