linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] block: improvements for discard alignment

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Date:	Thu, 5 Jul 2012 17:43:06 -0400
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, snitzer@...hat.com,
	david@...morbit.com, dm-devel@...hat.com, xfs@....sgi.com,
	hch@....de, martin.petersen@...cle.com, axboe@...nel.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] block: improvements for discard alignment

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> When a disk has a large discard_granularity, discards are not split with
> optimal alignment; the pessimization gets bigger as discard_granularity
> and max_discard_sectors become closer.
> 
> Take the limit case of discard_granularity == max_discard_sectors == 64.
> Then, if a request is submitted for 256 sectors 2..257 it will be split
> like this: 2..65, 66..129, 130..193, 194..257.  None of these requests
> is aligned, so in fact you might end up with no discarded logical blocks
> at all.  With this patch, the split will be 2..63, 64..127, 128..191,
> 192..255, 256..257.  The patches also take the discard_alignment into
> consideration.
> 
> Patch 1 adjusts the computation of the granularity-adjusted
> max_discard_sectors so that it prepares for the new code in patch 2,
> which actually adjusts the split.
> 
> v2->v3: drop addition of queue/discard_alignment to sysfs, use
>   correct alignment for partitions
> 
> Paolo Bonzini (2):
>   block: reorganize rounding of max_discard_sectors
>   block: split discard into aligned requests

Looks good to me. Did little testing with scsi_debug with discard_alignment=0
and discard_alignment=7 (sectors). We seem to be aligning requests better now.

Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>

Thanks
Vivek
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