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    block: split discard into aligned requests · c6e66634
    Paolo Bonzini authored
    When a disk has large discard_granularity and small max_discard_sectors,
    discards are not split with optimal alignment.  In the limit case of
    discard_granularity == max_discard_sectors, no request could be aligned
    correctly, so in fact you might end up with no discarded logical blocks
    at all.
    
    Another example that helps showing the condition in the patch is with
    discard_granularity == 64, max_discard_sectors == 128.  A request that is
    submitted for 256 sectors 2..257 will be split in two: 2..129, 130..257.
    However, only 2 aligned blocks out of 3 are included in the request;
    128..191 may be left intact and not discarded.  With this patch, the
    first request will be truncated to ensure good alignment of what's left,
    and the split will be 2..127, 128..255, 256..257.  The patch will also
    take into account the discard_alignment.
    
    At most one extra request will be introduced, because the first request
    will be reduced by at most granularity-1 sectors, and granularity
    must be less than max_discard_sectors.  Subsequent requests will run
    on round_down(max_discard_sectors, granularity) sectors, as in the
    current code.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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