I also recommend NVMe controller, it supports Deallocate(in SATA, it is called TRIM.)
chuck has committed a lot of patches to NVMe controller in 13.0 Current. Just install 12.1-STABLE, fetch pci_nvme.c from 13.0 Current, recompile bhyve. It works great. stable/fast. On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 6:40 AM Dustin Marquess <dmarqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Try nvme, I believe that driver supports TRIM and I've had a lot > better performance with it over ahci-hd. > > -Dustin > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 12:24 PM Andrea Venturoli <m...@netfence.it> wrote: > > > > Hello. > > > > I'm running zvol-backed Windows guests in bhyve on FreeBSD 12.1. > > Over time, I see the zvol effectively used space grow in size: a sign > > that Windows isn't trimming it. > > > > I'm using virtio-blk: I guess this driver does not support trim? > > I see reports that this support was added, but it's not clear to me > > whether it's in the released version or not (I've downloaded the stable > > binary ISO from RedHat). > > Is trim expected to work in such a scenario? > > If not, is it a bhyve problem or a guest-driver problem (or both)? > > > > I tried virtio-scsi, which should support trim, but the guest doesn't > > even start in this case, getting stuck at the UEFI boot stage and ending > > up in UEFI prompt. > > Again, is this expected? > > No guest driver has been loaded yet, so is it a bhyve limitation? > > Is some tweak needed? > > > > I tried changing from virtio-blk to ahci-hd: I was then able to manually > > trim the disk from inside the guest and recover a lot of space in the zpool. > > Alas ahci-hd is much slower, so I moved back to virtio-blk after that > > (at least for the time being). > > > > bye & Thanks > > av. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
