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From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
To: karn@ka9q.net
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: TRIM details
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 10:17:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110107091720.GA6921@citd.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110107091120.GA6634@citd.de>

On 07.01.2011 10:11, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> On 06.01.2011 19:22, Phil Karn wrote:
> 
> > Just have the drive interpret an ordinary write of all 0's to any LBA as
> > an implicit "unmap" indication for that LBA. As long as the drive
> 
> The drive would have to look into each written sector in the off chance 
> that it might be 0, that's a lot of electrons you have to burn for not 
> much gain. And that's ignoring the performance side, doing such a check 
> on each incoming write would be expensive at best.

Altough, after thinking about it a little more. Doing a Population count 
in the controller while the data comes in over the wire can't be that 
expensive.





Bis denn

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-07  9:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-07  3:22 TRIM details Phil Karn
2011-01-07  4:35 ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-01-07  9:11 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2011-01-07  9:17   ` Matthias Schniedermeyer [this message]
2011-01-07 14:15     ` Phil Karn
2011-01-07 14:13   ` Phil Karn
2011-01-07 16:50     ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-01-07 23:43       ` Phil Karn
2011-01-07 14:21   ` Phil Karn

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