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From: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
To: "linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	minchan@kernel.org, senozhatsky@chromium.org
Subject: Super slow subpage IO on zram block devices?
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:15:14 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <92361cd3-fb8b-482e-bc89-15ff1acb9a59@suse.com> (raw)

Hi,

Not sure if it's a regression or not, but on the latest 7.0-rc kernels, 
the discard is unacceptable slow on zram devices, if the block size is 
smaller than page size:

  # uname -a
  Linux btrfs-aarch64 7.0.0-rc5-custom-64k+ #7 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue 
Mar 24 13:38:13 ACDT 2026 aarch64 GNU/Linux

  # getconf PAGESIZE
  65536

  # zramctl
  NAME       ALGORITHM DISKSIZE DATA COMPR TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT
  /dev/zram0 zstd          128M   0B    0B    0B

  # time blkdiscard -p 4k /dev/zram0
  [ It takes too long time that exceed my patient ]

After a reboot, if discarding using page size (64K), it finishes in seconds:

  # time blkdiscard -p 64k /dev/zram0

  real	0m0.024s
  user	0m0.004s
  sys	0m0.011s

I understand that using block size smaller than page size would cause 
some overhead, but seemingly eternal is beyond my expectation of "overhead".

Is this a known bug or something else?

Thanks,
Qu

             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-31  5:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-31  5:45 Qu Wenruo [this message]
2026-03-31  7:02 ` Super slow subpage IO on zram block devices? Sergey Senozhatsky

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