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authorDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2008-08-05 18:01:53 +0100
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2008-10-09 08:56:01 +0200
commitfb2dce862d9f9a68e6b9374579056ec9eca02a63 (patch)
tree888e0fd7248c9329fa1aa3981043a2dc2457d488 /fs/fat
parentd628eaef310533767ce68664873869c2d7f78f09 (diff)
Add 'discard' request handling
Some block devices benefit from a hint that they can forget the contents of certain sectors. Add basic support for this to the block core, along with a 'blkdev_issue_discard()' helper function which issues such requests. The caller doesn't get to provide an end_io functio, since blkdev_issue_discard() will automatically split the request up into multiple bios if appropriate. Neither does the function wait for completion -- it's expected that callers won't care about when, or even _if_, the request completes. It's only a hint to the device anyway. By definition, the file system doesn't _care_ about these sectors any more. [With feedback from OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> and Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com] Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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