Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add batched discard support for ext4

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On Wed 04-08-10 17:30:12, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> Walk through each allocation group and trim all free extents. It can be
> invoked through TRIM 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 fro free extents in each allocation group. When the free
> extent is found, blocks are marked as used in the buddy bitmap and then
> trimmed. Afterwards these blocks are marked as free in per-group buddy
> 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: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx>
  Looks good now. So you can add:
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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