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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.35 Regression: Ages spent discarding blocks that weren't used!
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:02:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq17hk6qmsd.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C5960B0.7020003@teksavvy.com> (Mark Lord's message of "Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:44:32 -0400")

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com> writes:

Mark> Looks to me like more and more things are using the block discard
Mark> functionality, and as predicted it is slowing things down
Mark> enormously.

Mark> The problem is that we still only discard tiny bits (a single
Mark> range still??)  per TRIM command, rather than batching larger
Mark> ranges and larger numbers of ranges into single TRIM commands.

Mark> That's a very poor implementation, especially when things start
Mark> enabling it by default.  Eg. the swap code, mke2fs, etc..

I'm working on aggregation.  But it's harder than we initially
thought...

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-04 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-04  1:40 2.6.35 Regression: Ages spent discarding blocks that weren't used! Nigel Cunningham
2010-08-04  8:59 ` Stefan Richter
2010-08-04  8:59 ` Stefan Richter
2010-08-04  9:16   ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-08-04  9:16   ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-08-04 12:44 ` Mark Lord
2010-08-04 18:02   ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2010-08-04 18:02   ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-08-04 21:22   ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-08-04 21:22   ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-08-05  3:58     ` Hugh Dickins
2010-08-05  3:58     ` Hugh Dickins
2010-08-05  6:28       ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-08-06  1:15         ` Hugh Dickins
2010-08-06  4:40           ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-08-06 22:07             ` Hugh Dickins
2010-08-06 22:07             ` Hugh Dickins
2010-08-07 22:47               ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-08-07 22:47               ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-08-13 11:54               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-13 18:15                 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-08-13 18:15                 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-08-14 11:43                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-14 11:43                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-13 11:54               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-06  4:40           ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-08-06  1:15         ` Hugh Dickins
2010-08-05  6:28       ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-08-04 12:44 ` Mark Lord
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-08-04  1:40 Nigel Cunningham

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