From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ext4: auto batched discard support at kernel thread Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 03:34:51 -0500 Message-ID: <20111202083451.GA7345@infradead.org> References: <20111202060424.GA26155@july> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: tytso@mit.edu, tm@tao.ma, lczerner@redhat.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Kyungmin Park Return-path: Received: from 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.166.109.252]:46214 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752254Ab1LBIe7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Dec 2011 03:34:59 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111202060424.GA26155@july> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 03:04:24PM +0900, Kyungmin Park wrote: > Hi, > > It's proof of concept to run kernel thread for batched discard. > > Now it can run fitrim at user level. but it's not clear which deamon run this activity. fstrim from a cron job. > In case of android platform, the launcher is candidate > but user can change the default launcher then it can't use the fitrim any more. Android beeing broken as shit is no reason to push useless code into the kernel.