linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] Btrfs fixes for 6.3-rc8

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Date:   Fri, 21 Apr 2023 17:21:31 +0200
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>
To:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, regressions@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: [GIT PULL] Btrfs fixes for 6.3-rc8

Hi,

two patches fixing the problem with aync discard. The default settings
had a low IOPS limit and processing a large batch to discard would take
a long time. On laptops this can cause increased power consumption due
to disk activity. As async discard has been on by default since 6.2 this
likely affects a lot of users.

Please pull, thanks.

- increase the default IOPS limit 10x which reportedly helped

- setting the sysfs IOPS value to 0 now does not throttle anymore
  allowing the discards to be processed at full speed, previously there
  was an arbitrary 6 hour target for processing the pending batch

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The following changes since commit 68d99ab0e9221ef54506f827576c5a914680eeaf:

  btrfs: fix fast csum implementation detection (2023-04-06 16:34:13 +0200)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux.git for-6.3-rc7-tag

for you to fetch changes up to ef9cddfe57d86aac6b509b550136395669159b30:

  btrfs: reinterpret async discard iops_limit=0 as no delay (2023-04-21 00:28:23 +0200)

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Boris Burkov (2):
      btrfs: set default discard iops_limit to 1000
      btrfs: reinterpret async discard iops_limit=0 as no delay

 fs/btrfs/discard.c | 21 +++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)