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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com,
	dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] block: allow large discard requests
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:52:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A99E98B.403@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090830025022.GE22870@parisc-linux.org>

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:49:02PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
>> Pardon my cursory review, but I don't see where this
>> patch set allows for more than a single extent/range
>> of sectors per TRIM command.
> 
> It doesn't.
> 
>> If it still does not group many extents into a single TRIM,
>> then it will be far to slow to be useful at all for SATA.
> 
> That depends on the firmware.  I do have plans to group the extents,
> but let's get something working before making it quick.
..

In this situation, it's more a case of making it *not sucky slow*
than getting to the point where we think about making it "quick".

One extent at a time is glacial.

Cheers


  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-30  2:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-29 23:03 [PATCH 0/7] discard support revisited Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-29 23:03 ` [PATCH 1/7] Make DISCARD_BARRIER and DISCARD_NOBARRIER writes instead of reads Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-03 17:52   ` David Woodhouse
2009-09-03 17:56     ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-08-29 23:03 ` [PATCH 2/7] block: use blkdev_issue_discard in blk_ioctl_discard Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-01  9:06   ` Steven Whitehouse
2009-09-11 22:26   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-14  9:40     ` Jens Axboe
2009-08-29 23:03 ` [PATCH 3/7] block: discard may need to allocate pages Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-29 23:03 ` [PATCH 4/7] sd: add support for WRITE SAME (16) with unmap bit Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-30  0:43   ` Douglas Gilbert
2009-08-30  1:05     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-30  2:43       ` Douglas Gilbert
2009-08-30  2:48         ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-30 11:12   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-08-30 17:14     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-29 23:03 ` [PATCH 5/7] libata: Add support for TRIM Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-29 23:03 ` [PATCH 6/7] block: allow large discard requests Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-30  2:49   ` Mark Lord
2009-08-30  2:50     ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-08-30  2:52       ` Mark Lord [this message]
2009-08-30  2:56         ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-29 23:03 ` [PATCH 7/7] xfs: add batches discard support Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-29 23:37 ` [PATCH 0/7] discard support revisited Matthew Wilcox
2009-08-30  2:15   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-30  3:03     ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-08-30 20:17     ` James Bottomley
2009-08-30 21:42       ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-08-30 22:48       ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-02 19:46         ` Matthew Wilcox

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