Messages in this thread | | | From | Paolo Bonzini <> | Subject | [PATCH v3 0/2] block: improvements for discard alignment | Date | Thu, 5 Jul 2012 18:01:42 +0200 |
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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
block/blk-lib.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- include/linux/blkdev.h | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
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