Commit 7ae34e77 authored by Joe Thornber's avatar Joe Thornber Committed by Mike Snitzer

dm cache: improve discard support

Safely allow the discard blocksize to be larger than the cache blocksize
by using the bio prison's range locking support.  This also improves
discard performance considerly because larger discards are issued to the
dm-cache device.  The discard blocksize was always intended to be
greater than the cache blocksize.  But until now it wasn't implemented
safely.

Also, by safely restoring the ability to have discard blocksize larger
than cache blocksize we're able to significantly reduce the memory used
for the cache's discard bitset.  Before, with a small discard blocksize,
the discard bitset could get quite large because its size is a function
of the discard blocksize and the origin device's size.  For example,
previously, using a 32KB cache blocksize with a 40TB origin resulted in
1280MB of incore memory use for the discard bitset!  Now, the discard
blocksize is scaled up accordingly to ensure the discard bitset is
capped at 2**14 bits, or 16KB.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
parent 08b18451
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