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* [RFC][PATCH 0/3] Btrfs: speed up fstrim
@ 2011-12-29  9:49 Li Zefan
  2011-12-29  9:49 ` [PATCH 1/3][URGENT] Btrfs: allow future use of type field of struct btrfs_free_space_entry Li Zefan
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From: Li Zefan @ 2011-12-29  9:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Chris Mason; +Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Martin Steigerwald

(This patchset is not for merge or review, except the first patch)

By remembering which areas have been trimmed, we can speed up
fstrim significantly.

    # fstrim -v /mnt/
    /mnt/: 152772608 bytes were trimmed
    # fstrim -v /mnt/
    /mnt/: 0 bytes were trimmed

To implement this, after a free space item has been trimmed, we
mark it as trimmed before inserting it into free space cache.

(*)If we want to speed up the first fstrim after mounting the filesystem,
we have to save the trimmed flag to disk, which will break backward
compatibility, but only 3.2-rcX kernels will be affected.

That is, if you use fstrim in newest kernel with this patchset applied,
and then you mount the fs in a 3.2-rcX kernel, you may trigger a BUG_ON()
in __load_free_space_cache() sooner or later.

So, is this acceptable?

     # fstrim -v /mnt/
     /mnt/: 267714560 bytes were trimmed
     # fstrim -v /mnt/
     /mnt/: 0 bytes were trimmed
     # sync
     # umount /mnt
     # !mount
     # fstrim -v /mnt/
     /mnt/: 152240128 bytes were trimmed

Because caches for block groups smaller than 100M will not be written
to disk, we'll still have to trim them.

*See this thread for a user request for this feature:
	https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/1/24


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