On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 15:55 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Now that we have reliably tracking of deleted extents in a transaction
> we can easily implement "online" discard support which calls
> blkdev_issue_discard once a transaction commits.
>
> The actual discard is a two stage operation as we first have to mark
> the busy extent as not available for reuse before we can start the
> actual discard. Note that we don't bother supporting discard for
> the non-delaylog mode. While that would be possible with this patch
> performance is awfull, and the optimization in the next patch won't
> work as easily.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
. . .
This one looks good overall. How about adding
documentation to Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
to describe the new mount options? (Dave, same
goes for you with delaylog. I haven't looked for
any other things missing from there.)
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx>
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