On 4/30/18 2:58 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 4/30/18 1:57 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> On 4/30/18 2:21 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: ... >> Ok, but I'm not sure how that precludes a block device tunable? You'd tune >> it for your workload, right? > > What kind of tunable are you thinking of? Right now we have one tunable, > which is the max discard size. Patch #1 actually helps make this do what > it should for sync discards, instead of just building a bio chain and > submitting that all at once. > >> Or is the concern that it could only be for the entire block device, and >> perhaps different partitions have different workloads? >> >> Sorry, caveman filesystem guy doesn't completely understand block devices. > > I just don't know what you are trying to tune :-) I'm wondering if "make discards synchronous" couldn't just be a block device tunable, rather than a filesystem mount option tunable. -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
