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ext4: allow to change s_last_trim_minblks via sysfs

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Ext4 has an optimization mechanism for batched disacrd (FITRIM) that
should help speed up subsequent calls of FITRIM ioctl by skipping the
groups that were previously trimmed. However because the FITRIM allows
to set the minimum size of an extent to trim, ext4 stores the last
minimum extent size and only avoids trimming the group if it was
previously trimmed with minimum extent size equal to, or smaller than
the current call.

There is currently no way to bypass the optimization without
umount/mount cycle. This becomes a problem when the file system is
live migrated to a different storage, because the optimization will
prevent possibly useful discard calls to the storage.

Fix it by exporting the s_last_trim_minblks via sysfs interface which
will allow us to set the minimum size to the number of blocks larger
than subsequent FITRIM call, effectively bypassing the optimization.

By setting the s_last_trim_minblks to ULONG_MAX the optimization will be
effectively cleared regardless of the previous state, or file system
configuration.

For example:
getconf ULONG_MAX > /sys/fs/ext4/dm-1/last_trim_minblks

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211103145122.17338-2-lczerner@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Lukas Czerner 2021-11-03 15:51:22 +01:00 committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent 2327fb2e23
commit 4a69aecbfb
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@ -245,6 +245,7 @@ EXT4_ATTR(last_error_time, 0444, last_error_time);
EXT4_ATTR(journal_task, 0444, journal_task);
EXT4_RW_ATTR_SBI_UI(mb_prefetch, s_mb_prefetch);
EXT4_RW_ATTR_SBI_UI(mb_prefetch_limit, s_mb_prefetch_limit);
EXT4_RW_ATTR_SBI_UL(last_trim_minblks, s_last_trim_minblks);
static unsigned int old_bump_val = 128;
EXT4_ATTR_PTR(max_writeback_mb_bump, 0444, pointer_ui, &old_bump_val);
@ -295,6 +296,7 @@ static struct attribute *ext4_attrs[] = {
#endif
ATTR_LIST(mb_prefetch),
ATTR_LIST(mb_prefetch_limit),
ATTR_LIST(last_trim_minblks),
NULL,
};
ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(ext4);