From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] mmc: add an ioctl for erasing
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 04:47:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100531084709.GA7784@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C037731.5030301@nokia.com>
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:45:37AM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> Sorry for the slow reply, I have been away.
>
> Connecting erase to discard was rejected for performance reasons in 2008.
> Refer:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/25378/focus=25606
The discard implementation changed a lot since those days. Discard
requests now have their own request size limitation which is separate
form that for normal requests, and we also store the alignment
requirement for them separately.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-31 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-21 13:47 [RFC][PATCH] mmc: add an ioctl for erasing Adrian Hunter
2010-05-21 14:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-31 8:45 ` Adrian Hunter
2010-05-31 8:47 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-05-31 9:14 ` Adrian Hunter
2010-05-31 11:14 ` Adrian Hunter
2010-05-26 1:01 ` George G. Davis
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