Re: [RFC] [PATCHv3 7/9] reiser4: batch discard support: actually implement the FITRIM ioctl handler.

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On 10/21/2014 06:18 PM, Ivan Shapovalov wrote:
On Tuesday 21 October 2014 at 12:14:02, Edward Shishkin wrote:	
On 10/21/2014 12:39 AM, Ivan Shapovalov wrote:
On Monday 20 October 2014 at 12:54:13, Edward Shishkin wrote:	
On 08/17/2014 11:52 PM, Ivan Shapovalov wrote:
[...]
+		/*
+		 * Grab some sane amount of space.
+		 * We will allocate blocks until end of the partition or until
+		 * the grabbed space is exhausted.
+		 */
+		ret = reiser4_grab_reserved(super, 0, BA_CAN_COMMIT | BA_SOME_SPACE);
  any "legitimate" user of the reserved space
will block on the mutex and eventually proceed. At the same time, given
a filesystem with (5% + eps) free space left, not using the reserved space
will result in trimming of (eps) blocks at a time.

reiser4_grab_reserved() grabs space from the reserved area (5%).
This is needed to make sure that unlink(), truncate(), etc. won't
fail, if there is no free space on disk. I don't think that FITRIM
ioctl needs this reserved area.
Well, IIUC, it doesn't hurt:

"doesn't hurt" is not enough. If you want to take a resource,
you should be going to explain, why do you need this.
I've explained the reason below... isn't it sufficient?


Sorry, but I don't see any explanation.

Thanks,
Edward.
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