From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Cc: dsterba@suse.cz, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, jeffm@suse.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] btrfs: Honour FITRIM range constraints during free space trim
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:48:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190131154820.GJ2900@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef5b4561-8337-a28a-4419-98e8f1e20e73@suse.com>
On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 05:35:10PM +0200, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> On 31.01.19 г. 17:21 ч., David Sterba wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 04:50:48PM +0200, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> >> Up until know trimming the freespace was done irrespective of what the
> >> arguments of the FITRIM ioctl were. For example fstrim's -o/-l arguments
> >> will be entirely ignored. Fix it by correctly handling those paramter.
> >> This requires breaking if the found freespace extent is after the end
> >> of the passed range as well as completing trim after trimming
> >> fstrim_range::len bytes.
> >
> > How does this work with with multipe-device filesystems? The fstrim
> > range would apply to all of them. Which does make some sense, though
> > might be unexpected as this does not happen for other filesystems.
>
> Well FITRIM doesn't have support for multiple device so it's to the
> discretion of the fs how exactly this is implemented. And this is indeed
> the way things work currently.
>
> > The FITRIM range is in the physical coordinates, so eg. the taking the
> > maximum size of all devices and iterating over that by 1GiB steps would
> > go though the whole filesystem. Something to put to the changelog and
> > documentation.
>
> I don't follow, trimming would just trim the physical range as passed by
> fstrim -o/-l options. That 1gb value is not hardcoded anywhere. If
> someone wants to trim all of the freespace (which is what the majority
> of the user do) then they can run FITRIM with 0 for offset and -1 for
> length.
Yeah but I wanted to give an example of usecase when the range is not
0/-1 and how this is could to be used.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-31 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-30 14:50 [PATCH 00/15] Improvements to fitrim Nikolay Borisov
2019-01-30 14:50 ` [PATCH 01/15] btrfs: Honour FITRIM range constraints during free space trim Nikolay Borisov
2019-01-31 15:21 ` David Sterba
2019-01-31 15:35 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-01-31 15:48 ` David Sterba [this message]
2019-01-31 19:30 ` Jeff Mahoney
2019-01-31 21:45 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-01-30 14:50 ` [PATCH 02/15] btrfs: Make WARN_ON in a canonical form Nikolay Borisov
2019-01-31 15:22 ` David Sterba
2019-02-04 13:12 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-01-30 14:50 ` [PATCH 03/15] btrfs: Remove EXTENT_FIRST_DELALLOC bit Nikolay Borisov
2019-01-31 15:23 ` David Sterba
2019-02-04 13:15 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-01-30 14:50 ` [PATCH 04/15] btrfs: combine device update operations during transaction commit Nikolay Borisov
2019-02-04 13:25 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-02-04 14:48 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-02-05 9:21 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-01-30 14:50 ` [PATCH 05/15] btrfs: Handle pending/pinned chunks before blockgroup relocation during device shrink Nikolay Borisov
2019-02-04 13:29 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-01-30 14:50 ` [PATCH 06/15] btrfs: Rename and export clear_btree_io_tree Nikolay Borisov
2019-02-04 13:31 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-01-30 14:50 ` [PATCH 07/15] btrfs: Populate ->orig_block_len during read_one_chunk Nikolay Borisov
2019-01-30 14:50 ` [PATCH 08/15] btrfs: Introduce new bits for device allocation tree Nikolay Borisov
2019-01-30 14:50 ` [PATCH 09/15] btrfs: replace pending/pinned chunks lists with io tree Nikolay Borisov
2019-01-30 14:50 ` [PATCH 10/15] btrfs: Remove 'trans' argument from find_free_dev_extent(_start) Nikolay Borisov
2019-02-04 14:36 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-01-30 14:50 ` [PATCH 11/15] btrfs: Factor out in_range macro Nikolay Borisov
2019-02-04 13:57 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-01-30 14:50 ` [PATCH 12/15] btrfs: Optimize unallocated chunks discard Nikolay Borisov
2019-01-30 14:51 ` [PATCH 13/15] btrfs: Fix gross misnaming Nikolay Borisov
2019-01-30 14:51 ` [PATCH 14/15] btrfs: Implement find_first_clear_extent_bit Nikolay Borisov
2019-02-04 14:04 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-02-04 16:57 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-01-30 14:51 ` [PATCH 15/15] btrfs: Switch btrfs_trim_free_extents to find_first_clear_extent_bit Nikolay Borisov
2019-01-31 15:38 ` [PATCH v2] " Nikolay Borisov
2019-01-31 15:41 ` [PATCH v3] " Nikolay Borisov
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