linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: stop issuing discards if not supported by device

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Message-ID: <4B97CEAB.1040004@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:54:03 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: stop issuing discards if not supported by device

Turn off issuance of discard requests if the device does
not support it - similar to the action we take for barriers.
This will save a little computation time if a non-discardable
device is mounted with -o discard, and also makes it obvious
that it's not doing what was asked at mount time ...

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
---

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 506713a..6ee4cac 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -2556,6 +2556,7 @@ static void release_blocks_on_commit(journal_t *journal, transaction_t *txn)
 		}
 		ext4_unlock_group(sb, entry->group);
 		if (test_opt(sb, DISCARD)) {
+			int ret;
 			ext4_fsblk_t discard_block;
 
 			discard_block = entry->start_blk +
@@ -2563,7 +2564,12 @@ static void release_blocks_on_commit(journal_t *journal, transaction_t *txn)
 			trace_ext4_discard_blocks(sb,
 					(unsigned long long)discard_block,
 					entry->count);
-			sb_issue_discard(sb, discard_block, entry->count);
+			ret = sb_issue_discard(sb, discard_block, entry->count);
+			if (ret == EOPNOTSUPP) {
+				ext4_warning(sb,
+					"discard not supported, disabling");
+				clear_opt(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mount_opt, DISCARD);
+			}
 		}
 		kmem_cache_free(ext4_free_ext_cachep, entry);
 		ext4_mb_release_desc(&e4b);

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