Re: 2.6.35 Regression: Ages spent discarding blocks that weren't used!

[Martin K. Petersen]

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Lord <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Mark> Looks to me like more and more things are using the block discard
Mark> functionality, and as predicted it is slowing things down
Mark> enormously.

Mark> The problem is that we still only discard tiny bits (a single
Mark> range still??)  per TRIM command, rather than batching larger
Mark> ranges and larger numbers of ranges into single TRIM commands.

Mark> That's a very poor implementation, especially when things start
Mark> enabling it by default.  Eg. the swap code, mke2fs, etc..

I'm working on aggregation.  But it's harder than we initially
thought...

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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