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Currently unallocated chunks are always trimmed. For example 2 consecutive trims on large storage would trim freespace twice irrespective of whether the space was actually allocated or not between those trims. Optimise this behavior by exploiting the newly introduced alloc_state tree of btrfs_device. A new CHUNK_TRIMMED bit is used to mark those unallocated chunks which have been trimmed and have not been allocated afterwards. On chunk allocation the respective underlying devices' physical space will have its CHUNK_TRIMMED flag cleared. This avoids submitting discards for space which hasn't been changed since the last time discard was issued. This applies to the single mount period of the filesystem as the information is not stored permanently. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.