Set zvol discard_granularity to the volblocksize.
authorEtienne Dechamps <etienne.dechamps@ovh.net>
Wed, 1 Aug 2012 08:29:59 +0000 (10:29 +0200)
committerBrian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Tue, 7 Aug 2012 21:55:31 +0000 (14:55 -0700)
commitee5fd0bb80d68ef095f831784cbb17181b2ba898
treee2437a510eaa09db0af6429e1aa94d2d44b35182
parent9a512dca97fec1afa5068b53621ce1dd7dbef578
Set zvol discard_granularity to the volblocksize.

Currently, zvols have a discard granularity set to 0, which suggests to
the upper layer that discard requests of arbirarily small size and
alignment can be made efficiently.

In practice however, ZFS does not handle unaligned discard requests
efficiently: indeed, it is unable to free a part of a block. It will
write zeros to the specified range instead, which is both useless and
inefficient (see dnode_free_range).

With this patch, zvol block devices expose volblocksize as their discard
granularity, so the upper layer is aware that it's not supposed to send
discard requests smaller than volblocksize.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #862
61 files changed:
Makefile.in
cmd/Makefile.in
cmd/mount_zfs/Makefile.in
cmd/vdev_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-discard-granularity.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/man5/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