Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: introduce nosmall_discard mount option

From: Jaegeuk Kim
Date: Fri Jul 30 2021 - 20:43:00 EST


On 07/31, Chao Yu wrote:
> On 2021/7/31 7:41, Chao Yu wrote:
> > On 2021/7/31 2:28, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > > how about adding "discard_gran=[small|segment|section]", and keeping discard_map
> > > in the small case only? And, I think we should set the section mode for zoned
> > > device automatically.
> >
> > Yup, better,
> >
> > About the naming, it look discard_gran is not clear here, since there is another
> > sysfs entry /sys/fs/f2fs/<devname>/discard_granularity has the same name, and
> > also semantics of newly added mount option is not only control the smallest discard
> > size, but also indicate discard start offset should be aligned to segment or section.
> > So how about using: "aligned_discard=[none|segment|section]" instead?
>
> Maybe: "aligned_discard=[block|segment|section]"?

How about discard_unit? I feel that issuing discards in one of those unit
indicate the offset.

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> >
> > Thanks,
> >
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