Add support for DISCARD to ZVOLs.
authorEtienne Dechamps <etienne.dechamps@ovh.net>
Fri, 2 Sep 2011 13:23:12 +0000 (15:23 +0200)
committerBrian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:19:38 +0000 (16:19 -0800)
commit30930fba219642cb1dadf1c8ef60ff799e3dc424
tree093f2c5c254768e859f8307d77d393e9668b5e1f
parentcb2d19010d8fbcf6c22585cd8763fad3ba7db724
Add support for DISCARD to ZVOLs.

DISCARD (REQ_DISCARD, BLKDISCARD) is useful for thin provisioning.
It allows ZVOL clients to discard (unmap, trim) block ranges from
a ZVOL, thus optimizing disk space usage by allowing a ZVOL to
shrink instead of just grow.

We can't use zfs_space() or zfs_freesp() here, since these functions
only work on regular files, not volumes. Fortunately we can use the
low-level function dmu_free_long_range() which does exactly what we
want.

Currently the discard operation is not added to the log. That's not
a big deal since losing discard requests cannot result in data
corruption. It would however result in disk space usage higher than
it should be. Thus adding log support to zvol_discard() is probably
a good idea for a future improvement.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
60 files changed:
Makefile.in
cmd/Makefile.in
cmd/mount_zfs/Makefile.in
cmd/sas_switch_id/Makefile.in
cmd/zdb/Makefile.in
cmd/zfs/Makefile.in
cmd/zinject/Makefile.in
cmd/zpios/Makefile.in
cmd/zpool/Makefile.in
cmd/zpool_id/Makefile.in
cmd/zpool_layout/Makefile.in
cmd/ztest/Makefile.in
cmd/zvol_id/Makefile.in
config/kernel-blk-queue-discard.m4 [new file with mode: 0644]
config/kernel.m4
configure
dracut/90zfs/Makefile.in
dracut/Makefile.in
etc/Makefile.in
etc/init.d/Makefile.in
etc/zfs/Makefile.in
include/Makefile.in
include/linux/Makefile.in
include/linux/blkdev_compat.h
include/sys/Makefile.in
include/sys/fm/Makefile.in
include/sys/fm/fs/Makefile.in
include/sys/fs/Makefile.in
lib/Makefile.in
lib/libavl/Makefile.in
lib/libefi/Makefile.in
lib/libnvpair/Makefile.in
lib/libshare/Makefile.in
lib/libspl/Makefile.in
lib/libspl/asm-generic/Makefile.in
lib/libspl/asm-i386/Makefile.in
lib/libspl/asm-x86_64/Makefile.in
lib/libspl/include/Makefile.in
lib/libspl/include/ia32/Makefile.in
lib/libspl/include/ia32/sys/Makefile.in
lib/libspl/include/rpc/Makefile.in
lib/libspl/include/sys/Makefile.in
lib/libspl/include/sys/dktp/Makefile.in
lib/libspl/include/sys/sysevent/Makefile.in
lib/libspl/include/util/Makefile.in
lib/libunicode/Makefile.in
lib/libuutil/Makefile.in
lib/libzfs/Makefile.in
lib/libzpool/Makefile.in
man/Makefile.in
man/man8/Makefile.in
module/zfs/zvol.c
scripts/Makefile.in
scripts/zpios-profile/Makefile.in
scripts/zpios-test/Makefile.in
scripts/zpool-config/Makefile.in
scripts/zpool-layout/Makefile.in
udev/Makefile.in
udev/rules.d/Makefile.in
zfs_config.h.in