Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2022-02-11

Re: [PATCH V3] block: loop:use kstatfs.f_bsize of backing file to set discard granularity

From: Ming Lei <hidden>
Date: 2022-02-08 03:22:56

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 11:58:30AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
If backing file's filesystem has implemented ->fallocate(), we think the
loop device can support discard, then pass sb->s_blocksize as
discard_granularity. However, some underlying FS, such as overlayfs,
doesn't set sb->s_blocksize, and causes discard_granularity to be set as
zero, then the warning in __blkdev_issue_discard() is triggered.

Christoph suggested to pass kstatfs.f_bsize as discard granularity, and
this way is fine because kstatfs.f_bsize means 'Optimal transfer block
size', which still matches with definition of discard granularity.

So fix the issue by setting discard_granularity as kstatfs.f_bsize if it
is available, otherwise claims discard isn't supported.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Pei Zhang <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <redacted>
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V3:
	- following Christoph's suggestion to not claim discard support if
	vfs_statfs() fails 
Hi Jens,

Any chance to merge it to v5.17?


Thanks,
Ming
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