Right now we, are relying on the fact that when we attempt to
actually do the discard, blkdev_issue_discar() returns -EOPNOTSUPP
and the user is informed that the device does not support discard.
However, in the case where the we do not hit any suitable free
extent to trim in FITRIM code, it will finish without any error.
This is very confusing, because it seems that FITRIM was successful
even though the device does not actually supports discard.
Solution: Check for the discard support before attempt to search for
free extents.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Allow manual discards from userspace using the FITRIM ioctl. This is not
intended to be run during normal workloads, as the freepsace btree walks
can cause large performance degradation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Lukas Czerner
Christoph Hellwig