TRIM support for UFS?

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 02:23:52PM -0800, Kirk McKusick wrote:
> The above patch looks good though I would do it unconditionally
> (e.g., also for snapshots). It seems sensible to make it conditional
> on a sysctl variable so that folks could experiment with it more
> easily. And I would leave it off by default as non-SSD disks are
> unlikely to benefit from it. If it does prove useful for SSD disks
> then I would make it conditional on a filesystem flag so that it
> is possible to enable it on a filesystem-by-filesystem basis (e.g.,
> on for filesystems on the SSD and off for the rest).

We already have a flag for disks: DISKFLAG_CANDELETE, which tells if the
disk support TRIM or not. Next we should add BIO_GETATTR attribute for
DISK class to return true if TRIM is supported. This way UFS can ask if
TRIM is supported on mount and don't bother sending BIO_DELETE if it is
not supported.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheelsystems.com
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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