linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Configurable max discard size

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jul 2015 19:53:17 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	snitzer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Configurable max discard size

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:04:12AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Based on experimentation with two different vendors, 64MB would be a good 
> default. Question is how best to set that. At least with the current patch, 
> untouched, 'discard_max_bytes' will still show the hw max value. If I 
> default it to 64MB, we'd lose that information until people started bumping 
> it up in size. Maybe that's not such a big deal, however.

Just expose the max value as another read-only sysfs value?
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