On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:08:08AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 9/20/13 11:42 AM, David Sterba wrote: > > The message about trim was printed unconditionally, we should check if > > trim is supported at all. > > Good idea, but I wonder if there's any risk that discard(0,0) will ever > be optimized away on the kernel side & pass unconditionally?
I hope the checks in blkdev_issue_discard() stay in the order as of now: 40 int blkdev_issue_discard(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector, 41 sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned long flags) 42 { ... 52 53 if (!q) 54 return -ENXIO; 55 56 if (!blk_queue_discard(q)) 57 return -EOPNOTSUPP; here it returns no matter what the arguments are, setting length to 0 is just cautious. 59 /* Zero-sector (unknown) and one-sector granularities are the same. */ 60 granularity = max(q->limits.discard_granularity >> 9, 1U); 61 alignment = bdev_discard_alignment(bdev) >> 9; 62 alignment = sector_div(alignment, granularity); 63 > I was thinking we could get this from blkid, but maybe not. Possibly yes, with other information like rotational etc. Alternatively, /sys/block/sdx/queue/dicard_granularity > 0 means that the device supports discard, but that's imo even more fragile than the direct call to discard. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html