Re: Ext4: batched discard support - simplified version

[Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>]

On 07/23/2010 11:19 AM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:13:52AM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>    
>> I don't think so.  In all of the configurations tested, I'm pretty sure
>> we saw a performance hit from doing the TRIMs right away.  The queue
>> flush really hurts.  Of course, I have no idea what you had in mind for
>> the amount of time in between batched discards.
>>      
> Sure, but not all the world is SATA-attached SSD's.  I'm thinking in
> particular of PCIe-attached SSD's, where the TRIM command might be
> very fast indeed...  I believe Ric Wheeler tells me you have TMS
> RamSan SSD's in house that you are testing?  And of course those
> aren't the only PCIe-attached flash devices out there....
>
>         	   		      	    	    	- Ted
>    

I think that some of the PCI-e cards might want that information right 
away, a lot of high end arrays actually prefer fewer larger chunks.

One other user might be virtual devices or some remote replication 
mechanism. I wonder if the drbd people for example might (do?) use these?

ric