Fwd: RFC: 32-bit __data_len and REQ_DISCARD+REQ_SECURE

[Grant Grundler]

[resending...I forgot to switch gmail back to text-only mode. grrrh..]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Grant Grundler <grundler@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: RFC: 32-bit __data_len and REQ_DISCARD+REQ_SECURE
To: Grant Grundler <grundler@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>, Ulf Hansson
<ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>, LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"linux-mmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-mmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Grant Grundler <grundler@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Some followup.
...
>
> 2) I've been able to test this hack on an eMMC device:
> [   13.147747] mmc..._secdiscard_rq(mmc1) ERASE from 14116864 cnt
> 0x2c00000 (size 22528 MiB)
> [   13.155964] sdhci cmd: 35/0x1a arg 0xd76800
> [   13.160266] sdhci cmd: 36/0x1a arg 0x39767ff
> [   13.164593] sdhci cmd: 38/0x1b arg 0x80000000
> [   13.803360] random: nonblocking pool is initialized
> [   14.567735] sdhci cmd: 13/0x1a arg 0x10000
> [   14.573324] mmc..._secdiscard_rq(mmc1) err 0
>
> This was with ~15K files and about 5GB written to the device. 1.4
> seconds compared to about 20 minutes to secure erase the same region
> with original v3.18 code.


To put a few more numbers on the "chunk size vs perf":
 1EG (512KB) -> 44K commands -> ~20 minutes
32EG (16MB) -> 1375 commands -> ~1 minute
128EG (64MB) -> 344 commands -> ~30 seconds
8191EG (~4GB) -> 6 commands -> 2 seconds + ~8 seconds mkfs
(I'm assuming times above include about 6-10 seconds of mkfs as part
of writing a new file system)

This is with only ~300MB of data written to the partition. I'm fully
aware that times will vary depending on how much data needs to be
migrated (and in this case very little or none). I'm certain the
difference will only get worse for the smaller the "chunk size" used
to Secure Erase due to repeated data migration.

Given the different use model for secure erase (legal/contractually
required behavior), is using 4GB chunk size acceptable?

Would anyone be terribly offended if I used the recently added
"MMC_IOC_MULTI_CMD" to send the cmd 35/36/38 sequence to the eMMC
device to securely erase the offending partition?

thanks,
grant
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