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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:17:34 -0700 (PDT) From: david@...g.hm To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com> cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>, Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Discard support (was Re: [PATCH] swap: send callback when swap slot is freed) On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > So TRIM isn't free, and there's a better way for the drive to find > out that the contents of a block no longer matter -- write some new > data to it. So if we just swapped a page in, and we're going to swap > something else back out again soon, just write it to the same location > instead of to a fresh location. You've saved a command, and you've > saved the drive some work, plus you've allowed other users to continue > accessing the drive in the meantime. on the other hand, if you then end up swapping the page you read in out again and haven't dirtied it, you now have to actually write it as opposed to just throwing it away (knowing that you already have a copy of it stored on the swap device) David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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