From: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
To: sandeen@redhat.com
Cc: Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com>,
Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>,
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>, Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>,
Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Edward Shishkin <eshishki@redhat.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@ifradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add batched discard support for ext4.
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:03:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BCF6831.7080506@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BCF67A9.2040902@redhat.com>
On 04/21/2010 05:01 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 04/21/2010 03:44 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>
>
>> Mark's benchmarks showed this as doable in seconds which seems like a
>> reasonable amount of time for a mount time operation.
>>
> All the other things aside, mount-time is interesting, but it's an
> infrequent operation, at least in my world. I think we need something
> that can be done runtime.
>
> For anything with uptime, I don't think it's acceptable to wait until
> the next mount to trim unused blocks.
>
> But as long as the mechanism can be called either at mount time and/or
> kicked off runtime somehow, I'm happy.
>
> -Eric
>
That makes sense to me. Most enterprise servers will go without
remounting a file system for (hopefully!) a very long time.
It is really important to keep in mind that this is not just a laptop
feature for laptop SSD's, this is also used by high end arrays and
*could* be useful for virt IO, etc as well :-)
ric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-21 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-19 10:55 Ext4: batched discard support Lukas Czerner
2010-04-19 10:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add ioctl FITRIM Lukas Czerner
2010-04-19 10:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] Add batched discard support for ext4 Lukas Czerner
2010-04-20 21:21 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-04-21 2:26 ` Mark Lord
2010-04-21 2:45 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-04-21 18:59 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-04-21 19:04 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-04-21 19:22 ` Jeff Moyer
2010-04-21 20:44 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-04-21 20:53 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-04-21 21:01 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-04-21 21:03 ` Ric Wheeler [this message]
2010-04-21 21:47 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-04-21 21:56 ` James Bottomley
2010-04-21 21:59 ` Mark Lord
2010-04-23 8:23 ` Lukas Czerner
2010-04-24 13:24 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-04-24 13:48 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-04-24 14:30 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-04-24 14:43 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-04-24 15:03 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-04-24 17:04 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-04-24 18:30 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-04-24 18:41 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-04-26 14:00 ` Mark Lord
2010-04-26 14:42 ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-04-26 15:27 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-04-26 15:51 ` Lukas Czerner
2010-04-28 1:25 ` Mark Lord
2010-04-26 15:48 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-04-24 19:06 ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-04-26 14:03 ` Mark Lord
2010-04-24 18:39 ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-04-26 16:55 ` Jan Kara
2010-04-26 17:46 ` Lukas Czerner
2010-04-26 17:52 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-04-26 18:14 ` Lukas Czerner
2010-04-26 18:28 ` Jeff Moyer
2010-04-26 18:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] Add batched discard support for ext4 - using rbtree Lukas Czerner
2010-04-26 18:42 ` Lukas Czerner
2010-04-27 15:29 ` Edward Shishkin
2010-04-21 20:52 ` [PATCH 2/2] Add batched discard support for ext4 Greg Freemyer
2010-04-19 16:20 ` Ext4: batched discard support Greg Freemyer
2010-04-19 16:30 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-04-19 17:58 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-04-19 18:04 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-04-20 20:24 ` Mark Lord
2010-04-20 20:34 ` Mark Lord
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-07 7:53 Ext4: batched discard support - simplified version Lukas Czerner
2010-07-07 7:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] Add batched discard support for ext4 Lukas Czerner
2010-07-14 8:33 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2010-07-14 9:40 ` Lukas Czerner
2010-07-14 10:03 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2010-07-14 11:43 ` Lukas Czerner
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