Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:50:22 -0600 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/7] block: allow large discard requests |
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On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:49:02PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > Pardon my cursory review, but I don't see where this > patch set allows for more than a single extent/range > of sectors per TRIM command.
It doesn't.
> If it still does not group many extents into a single TRIM, > then it will be far to slow to be useful at all for SATA.
That depends on the firmware. I do have plans to group the extents, but let's get something working before making it quick.
-- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."
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