Allan Jude wrote this message on Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 11:15 -0400:
> On 2020-03-19 08:54, Wanpeng Qian wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I found the output of diskinfo inside VM of AHCI disk as follow, no
> > TRIM support.
> > root@smart:~ # diskinfo -v ada0
> > ada0
> > 512 # sectorsize
> > 21474836480 # mediasize in bytes (20G)
> > 41943040# mediasize in sectors
> > 131072 # stripesize
> > 0# stripeoffset
> > 41610# Cylinders according to firmware.
> > 16 # Heads according to firmware.
> > 63 # Sectors according to firmware.
> > BHYVE SATA DISK # Disk descr.
> > BHYVE-0B98-104F-E9A7 # Disk ident.
> > No # TRIM/UNMAP support
> > 0# Rotation rate in RPM
> > Not_Zoned# Zone Mode
> >
> > Also camcontrol identify ada0 -v show not support of TRIM
> >
> > Data Set Management (DSM/TRIM) no
> >
> > I check to pci_ahci.c, TRIM support is decided by block_if.c's candelete
> > flag.
> > while candelete is decided here
> >
> > strlcpy(arg.name, "GEOM::candelete", sizeof(arg.name));
> > arg.len = sizeof(arg.value.i);
> > if (ioctl(fd, DIOCGATTR, &arg) == 0)
> > candelete = arg.value.i;
> >
> > Obvious file backend will not have the candelete flag.
> >
> > If the backend storage support TRIM, I think we should present TRIM
> > ability to VM.
> > Any better idea to check whether backend storage support TRIM or not,
> > so we can enable it.
> >
> > Thanks.
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>
> I have updated my patch to add TRIM support to the bhyve block interface
> here:
>
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21707
>
> I am working on an update to the virtio driver, to make FreeBSD guests
> able to TRIM if the hypervisor supports it as well:
>
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21708
One comment on that patch is that it looks like there are a number of
white space and definitions (unrelated to the patch) that are included
in the patch. It'd be good to break out those fixes and just commit
them.. That would reduce the size of the patch a bit.
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