linux-kernel - RE: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 2/3] f2fs: introduce FITRIM in f2fs

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Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:01:58 +0800
From:	Chao Yu <chao2.yu@...sung.com>
To:	'Jaegeuk Kim' <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 2/3] f2fs: introduce FITRIM in f2fs_ioctl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jaegeuk Kim [mailto:jaegeuk@...nel.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 12:53 PM
> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org;
> linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
> Cc: Jaegeuk Kim
> Subject: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 2/3] f2fs: introduce FITRIM in f2fs_ioctl
> 
> This patch introduces FITRIM in f2fs_ioctl.
> In this case, f2fs will issue small discards and prefree discards as many as
> possible for the given area.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>

Looks good!

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@...sung.com>

> +
>  	/* zero block will be discarded through the prefree list */
>  	if (!se->valid_blocks || se->valid_blocks == max_blocks)
>  		return;
> 
> +	dmap = kzalloc(SIT_VBLOCK_MAP_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);

We can afford 64 bytes allocation in stack, how about altering dmap to a local
array to reduce memory pressure at that moment and avoid delay of allocation?

> +	if (!dmap)
> +		return;
> +


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