linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] Set the initial TRIM information as TRIMMED

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Date:	Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:06:57 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Kyungmin Park <kmpark@...radead.org>
CC:	tytso@....edu, tm@....ma, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Set the initial TRIM information as TRIMMED

On 12/1/11 1:00 AM, Kyungmin Park wrote:
> From: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>
> 
> Now trim information doesn't stored at disk so every boot time. it's cleared.
> and do the trim all disk groups.
> But assume that it's already trimmed at previous time so don't need to trim it again. So set the intial state as trimmed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> index e2d8be8..97ef342 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> @@ -1098,6 +1098,12 @@ int ext4_mb_init_group(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group)
>  		goto err;
>  	}
>  	mark_page_accessed(page);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * TRIM information is not stored at disk so set the initial
> +	 * state as trimmed. Since previous time it's already trimmed all
> +	 */
> +	EXT4_MB_GRP_SET_TRIMMED(this_grp);

Hm, so if there were freed but un-trimmed blocks at this point, we will
never trim them until we free _another_ block in the group, right?  That
might be a reasonable tradeoff, but it is somewhat surprising behavior.

i.e. say we do:

mount /mnt
rm -rf /mnt/very_big_file
umount /mnt

mount /mnt
fitrim /mnt

then we won't trim anything at all, right, despite there being many
new free blocks?  Which would be rather unexpected.

If we don't store the trimmed state on disk, I think we should
probably stick with the slower first-time trim, and the more obvious
behavior (all free blocks are always trimmed whenever a trim
command is issued).

-Eric

>  err:
>  	ext4_mb_put_buddy_page_lock(&e4b);
>  	return ret;
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