Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754581Ab0KSOx5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:53:57 -0500 Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:54611 "EHLO ironport2-out.pppoe.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753548Ab0KSOxz (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:53:55 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApIBAJIe5kxLd/sX/2dsb2JhbAAHgz3MM5EQgSKDNnMEhFqLEw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,223,1288584000"; d="scan'208";a="82982504" Message-ID: <4CE68F80.7000607@teksavvy.com> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:53:52 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Mason CC: James Bottomley , Christoph Hellwig , Matthew Wilcox , Josef Bacik , Lukas Czerner , tytso , linux-ext4 , linux-kernel , linux-fsdevel , sandeen Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs: Do not dispatch FITRIM through separate super_operation References: <1290065809-3976-1-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com> <20101118130630.GJ6178@parisc-linux.org> <20101118134804.GN5618@dhcp231-156.rdu.redhat.com> <20101118141957.GK6178@parisc-linux.org> <20101118142918.GA18510@infradead.org> <1290100750.3041.72.camel@mulgrave.site> <4CE59C9E.6050902@teksavvy.com> <1290177488-sup-6540@think> In-Reply-To: <1290177488-sup-6540@think> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 708 Lines: 18 On 10-11-19 09:40 AM, Chris Mason wrote: > > We've been told that online and constant trimming is the default in > windows7. The ssds are most likely to just start ignoring the trims > they can't service efficiently. Win7 collects multiple TRIM ranges over time and batches them as single TRIMs (as reported to me by an SSD vendor who traced it with a SATA analyzer, and who also apparently has "inside info"). That's what we also need Linux to do. Cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/