Re: [RFC PATCH 02/02] swapon: add "cluster-discard" support

From: Jeff Moyer
Date: Wed May 22 2013 - 09:52:51 EST


KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> Instead of reverting and renaming --discard, what about making it accept an
>> optional argument, so we could use --discard (to enable all thing and keep
>> backward compatibility); --discard=cluster & --discard=batch (or whatever we
>> think it should be named). I'll try to sort this approach out if you folks think
>> it's worthwhile.
>
> Optional argument looks nice, at least to me.
>
> But hmm..
>
> "cluster" and "batch" describes current kernel implementation, not user visible effect.
> Usually I suggest to pick up a word from man pages because it describe user visible action.
> e.g. --discard=freed-pages or --discard=io or --discard=swapon or --discard=once, etc..
>
> But this is not strong opinion. You can ignore it. I don't think I have good English sense. :-)

I like discard=swapon. For the fine-grained discards, I don't have a
strong opinion, but I guess I'd lean towards freed-pages.

Cheers,
Jeff
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