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From: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
To: "Holger Hoffstätte" <holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: discard synchronous on most SSDs?
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 21:21:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140315042116.GK6143@merlins.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2014.03.14.20.46.24@googlemail.com>

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 08:46:09PM +0000, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:57:41 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> 
> > So right now I'm afraid we don't have a good way for a user to determine
> > whether a device supports queued trims or not.
> 
> Mount with discard, unpack kernel tree, sync, rm -rf tree.
> If it takes several seconds, you have sync discard, no?

Mmmh, interesting point.

legolas:/usr/src# time rm -rf linux-3.14-rc5
real	0m1.584s
user	0m0.008s
sys	0m1.524s

I remounted my FS with remount,nodiscard, and the time was the same.

> This changed somewhere around kernel 3.8.x; before that it used to be 
> acceptably fast. Since then I only do batch trims, daily (server) or 
> weekly (laptop).

I'm never really timed this before. Is it supposed to be faster than 1.5s on
a fast SSD?

Marc
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-15  4:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-09  7:48 Massive BTRFS performance degradation KC
2014-03-09  8:17 ` Swâmi Petaramesh
2014-03-09 10:01   ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-03-09 10:23     ` Swâmi Petaramesh
2014-03-09 11:33       ` Hugo Mills
2014-03-09 11:54         ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-03-09 12:10         ` Swâmi Petaramesh
2014-03-09 17:14           ` boris
2014-03-14  2:11         ` discard synchronous on most SSDs? Marc MERLIN
2014-03-14  3:39           ` Chris Murphy
2014-03-14  5:17             ` Marc MERLIN
2014-03-14  7:33               ` Chris Samuel
2014-03-14 19:26                 ` Marc MERLIN
2014-03-14 19:57                   ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-03-14 20:46                     ` Holger Hoffstätte
2014-03-15  4:21                       ` Marc MERLIN [this message]
2014-03-15  9:38                         ` Holger Hoffstätte
2014-03-15  5:25                     ` Chris Samuel
2014-03-15  6:48                       ` Chris Samuel
2014-03-15 11:26                         ` Duncan
2014-03-15 22:48                           ` Chris Samuel
2014-03-16  6:06                           ` Marc MERLIN
2014-03-16 17:09                             ` Chris Murphy
2014-03-16 16:22                       ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-03-16 17:50                         ` Marc MERLIN
2014-03-15  4:06                 ` Chris Samuel
2014-03-16 16:07                   ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-03-14 12:07               ` Duncan
2014-03-14 21:44               ` Chris Murphy
2014-03-14  7:27             ` Chris Samuel
2014-03-09 17:36   ` Massive BTRFS performance degradation Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-03-09 18:55     ` Tobias Holst

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