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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:17:22 -0500
From: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
CC: ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: make trim/discard optional (and off by default)
On 11/16/2009 05:44 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> It is anticipated that when sb_issue_discard starts doing
> real work on trim-capable devices, we may see issues. Make
> this mount-time optional, and default it to off until we know
> that things are working out OK.
>
> (Q: should we call this "discard" instead? What's the more common
> term users might expect ... ?)
Users will be confused regardless of what we do here, but the actual
discard only invokes ATA_TRIM commands on ATA devices. (SCSI uses its
own command, either a WRITE_SAME with discard or UNMAP).
Not sure that any real user cares since they both end up doing roughly
the same thing...
ric
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
> ---
>
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
> b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
> index 6d94e06..87036af 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
> @@ -353,6 +353,12 @@ noauto_da_alloc replacing existing files
> via patterns such as
> system crashes before the delayed allocation
> blocks are forced to disk.
>
> +trim Controls whether ext4 should issue TRIM/discard
> +notrim(*) commands to the underlying block device when
> + blocks are freed. This is useful for SSD devices
> + and sparse/thinly-provisioned LUNs, but it is off
> + by default until sufficient testing has been done.
> +
> Data Mode
> =========
> There are 3 different data modes:
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> index 8825515..410adb6 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> @@ -750,6 +750,7 @@ struct ext4_inode_info {
> #define EXT4_MOUNT_DELALLOC 0x8000000 /* Delalloc support */
> #define EXT4_MOUNT_DATA_ERR_ABORT 0x10000000 /* Abort on file data
> write */
> #define EXT4_MOUNT_BLOCK_VALIDITY 0x20000000 /* Block validity
> checking */
> +#define EXT4_MOUNT_TRIM 0x40000000 /* Issue TRIM requests */
>
> #define clear_opt(o, opt) o &= ~EXT4_MOUNT_##opt
> #define set_opt(o, opt) o |= EXT4_MOUNT_##opt
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> index bba1282..8a4f77b 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> @@ -2529,7 +2529,6 @@ static void release_blocks_on_commit(journal_t
> *journal, transaction_t *txn)
> struct ext4_group_info *db;
> int err, count = 0, count2 = 0;
> struct ext4_free_data *entry;
> - ext4_fsblk_t discard_block;
> struct list_head *l, *ltmp;
>
> list_for_each_safe(l, ltmp, &txn->t_private_list) {
> @@ -2559,13 +2558,19 @@ static void release_blocks_on_commit(journal_t
> *journal, transaction_t *txn)
> page_cache_release(e4b.bd_bitmap_page);
> }
> ext4_unlock_group(sb, entry->group);
> - discard_block = (ext4_fsblk_t) entry->group *
> EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb)
> - + entry->start_blk
> - + le32_to_cpu(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_es->s_first_data_block);
> - trace_ext4_discard_blocks(sb, (unsigned long long)discard_block,
> - entry->count);
> - sb_issue_discard(sb, discard_block, entry->count);
> -
> + if (test_opt(sb, TRIM)) {
> + ext4_fsblk_t discard_block;
> + struct ext4_super_block *es = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_es;
> +
> + discard_block = (ext4_fsblk_t)entry->group *
> + EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb)
> + + entry->start_blk
> + + le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_data_block);
> + trace_ext4_discard_blocks(sb,
> + (unsigned long long)discard_block,
> + entry->count);
> + sb_issue_discard(sb, discard_block, entry->count);
> + }
> kmem_cache_free(ext4_free_ext_cachep, entry);
> ext4_mb_release_desc(&e4b);
> }
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index d4ca92a..fc4a8d8 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -899,6 +899,9 @@ static int ext4_show_options(struct seq_file *seq,
> struct vfsmount *vfs)
> if (test_opt(sb, NO_AUTO_DA_ALLOC))
> seq_puts(seq, ",noauto_da_alloc");
>
> + if (test_opt(sb, TRIM))
> + seq_puts(seq, ",trim");
> +
> ext4_show_quota_options(seq, sb);
>
> return 0;
> @@ -1079,7 +1082,8 @@ enum {
> Opt_usrquota, Opt_grpquota, Opt_i_version,
> Opt_stripe, Opt_delalloc, Opt_nodelalloc,
> Opt_block_validity, Opt_noblock_validity,
> - Opt_inode_readahead_blks, Opt_journal_ioprio
> + Opt_inode_readahead_blks, Opt_journal_ioprio,
> + Opt_trim, Opt_notrim,
> };
>
> static const match_table_t tokens = {
> @@ -1144,6 +1148,8 @@ static const match_table_t tokens = {
> {Opt_auto_da_alloc, "auto_da_alloc=%u"},
> {Opt_auto_da_alloc, "auto_da_alloc"},
> {Opt_noauto_da_alloc, "noauto_da_alloc"},
> + {Opt_trim, "trim"},
> + {Opt_notrim, "notrim"},
> {Opt_err, NULL},
> };
>
> @@ -1565,6 +1571,12 @@ set_qf_format:
> else
> set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt,NO_AUTO_DA_ALLOC);
> break;
> + case Opt_trim:
> + set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, TRIM);
> + break;
> + case Opt_notrim:
> + clear_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, TRIM);
> + break;
> default:
> ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
> "Unrecognized mount option \"%s\" "
>
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