linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add batched discard support for ext4.

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Date:	Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:01:29 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <esandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@...il.com>
CC:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>, Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com>,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com>,
	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Edward Shishkin <eshishki@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...adead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add batched discard support for ext4.

On 04/21/2010 03:44 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:

> Mark's benchmarks showed this as doable in seconds which seems like a
> reasonable amount of time for a mount time operation.

All the other things aside, mount-time is interesting, but it's an
infrequent operation, at least in my world.  I think we need something
that can be done runtime.

For anything with uptime, I don't think it's acceptable to wait until
the next mount to trim unused blocks.

But as long as the mechanism can be called either at mount time and/or
kicked off runtime somehow, I'm happy.

-Eric
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