support for multi-range discard requests

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Tue Feb 7 08:46:54 PST 2017


Hi all,

this series adds support for merging discontiguous discard bios into a
single request if the driver supports it.  This reduces the number of
discards sent to the device by about a factor of 5-6 for typical
workloads on NVMe, and for slower devices that use I/O scheduling
the number will probably be even bigger but I've not implemented
that support yet.



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