James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx> writes: > Not stepping into the debate: I'm happy to see punch go to the mapping > data and FITRIM pick it up later. > > However, I think it's time to question whether we actually still want to > allow online discard at all. Most of the benchmarks show it to be a net Define online discard, please. > lose to almost everything (either SSD or Thinly Provisioned arrays), so > it's become an "enable this to degrade performance" option with no > upside. Some SSDs very much require TRIMming to perform well as they age. If you're suggesting that we move from doing discards in journal commits to a batched discard, like the one Lukas implemented, then I think that's fine. If we need to reintroduce the finer-grained discards due to some hardware changes in the future, we can always do that. Cheers, Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
