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Commit 7360d173 authored by Lukas Czerner's avatar Lukas Czerner Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: Add batched discard support for ext4



Walk through allocation groups and trim all free extents. It can be
invoked through FITRIM ioctl on the file system. The main idea is to
provide a way to trim the whole file system if needed, since some SSD's
may suffer from performance loss after the whole device was filled (it
does not mean that fs is full!).

It search for free extents in allocation groups specified by Byte range
start -> start+len. When the free extent is within this range, blocks
are marked as used and then trimmed. Afterwards these blocks are marked
as free in per-group bitmap.

Since fstrim is a long operation it is good to have an ability to
interrupt it by a signal. This was added by Dmitry Monakhov.
Thanks Dimitry.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
parent 367a51a3
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