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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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| .. | ||
| as-iosched.c | ||
| blk-barrier.c | ||
| blk-core.c | ||
| blk-exec.c | ||
| blk-integrity.c | ||
| blk-ioc.c | ||
| blk-map.c | ||
| blk-merge.c | ||
| blk-settings.c | ||
| blk-sysfs.c | ||
| blk-tag.c | ||
| blk.h | ||
| blktrace.c | ||
| bsg.c | ||
| cfq-iosched.c | ||
| cmd-filter.c | ||
| compat_ioctl.c | ||
| deadline-iosched.c | ||
| elevator.c | ||
| genhd.c | ||
| ioctl.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Kconfig.iosched | ||
| Makefile | ||
| noop-iosched.c | ||
| scsi_ioctl.c | ||