search for: lidongyang

Hey guys, Pasi mentioned on Li''s (and Owen''s) patches which provide TRIM/UNMAP support to the Linux backend/frontend that: " Isn''t the generic name for this functionality "discard" in Linux? and "trim" being the ATA specific discard-implementation, and "scsi unmap" the SAS/SCSI specific discard-implementation? Just

Dear list, This is the V4 of the trim support for xen-blkfront/blkback, Now we move BLKIF_OP_TRIM to BLKIF_OP_DISCARD, and dropped all "trim" stuffs in the patches, and use "discard" instead. Also we updated the helpers of blkif_x86_{32|64}_request or we will meet problems using a non-native protocol. And this patch has been tested with both SSD and raw file, with SSD we will

when we fall back to buffered write from direct write, we call __generic_file_aio_write but that will end up doing direct write even we are only prepared to do buffered write because the file has O_DIRECT flag set. This is a fix for https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591039 revised with Joel's comments. --- fs/ocfs2/file.c | 23 ++++++++++++----------- 1 files changed, 12