RE: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 2/3] f2fs: introduce FITRIM in f2fs_ioctl

From: Chao Yu
Date: Tue Sep 30 2014 - 02:02:28 EST


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jaegeuk Kim [mailto:jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 12:53 PM
> To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> linux-f2fs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Jaegeuk Kim
> Subject: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 2/3] f2fs: introduce FITRIM in f2fs_ioctl
>
> This patch introduces FITRIM in f2fs_ioctl.
> In this case, f2fs will issue small discards and prefree discards as many as
> possible for the given area.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good!

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> +
> /* zero block will be discarded through the prefree list */
> if (!se->valid_blocks || se->valid_blocks == max_blocks)
> return;
>
> + dmap = kzalloc(SIT_VBLOCK_MAP_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);

We can afford 64 bytes allocation in stack, how about altering dmap to a local
array to reduce memory pressure at that moment and avoid delay of allocation?

> + if (!dmap)
> + return;
> +


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