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    GFS2: FITRIM ioctl support · 66fc061b
    Steven Whitehouse authored
    The FITRIM ioctl provides an alternative way to send discard requests to
    the underlying device. Using the discard mount option results in every
    freed block generating a discard request to the block device. This can
    be slow, since many block devices can only process discard requests of
    larger sizes, and also such operations can be time consuming.
    
    Rather than using the discard mount option, FITRIM allows a sweep of the
    filesystem on an occasional basis, and also to optionally avoid sending
    down discard requests for smaller regions.
    
    In GFS2 FITRIM will work at resource group granularity. There is a flag
    for each resource group which keeps track of which resource groups have
    been trimmed. This flag is reset whenever a deallocation occurs in the
    resource group, and set whenever a successful FITRIM of that resource
    group has taken place. This helps to reduce repeated discard requests
    for the same block ranges, again improving performance.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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