Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: no need to cond_resched() in ext4_trim_all_free()

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On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 12:26:05AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:36:40AM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> > There is no need to call cond_resched() in ext4_trim_all_free() since
> > blkdev_issue_discard() already takes care of that. So just remove it.
> 
> Actually, it could be needed.  If minblocks is a small value, say 2,
> and every other block in file system is allocated, then we could be in
> the while loop for a long time.  That's a pretty unusual case, but
> it's good to have the need_resched() check there.
> 
> 						- Ted

Fair enough, it's unusuall case, but still possible. Let's keep it this
way.

Thanks!
-Lukas



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