2012-04-08 오후 10:50, Alex Lemberg 쓴 글:

> Hi Arnd,
> 
> Regarding time to issue discard/TRIM commands:
> It would be advised to issue the discard command immediately after 
> deleting/freeing a SWAP cluster (i.e. as soon as it becomes available).


Is it still good with page size, not cluster size?

> 
> Regarding SWAP page size:
> Working with as large as SWAP pages as possible would be recommended 
> (preferably 64KB). Also, writing in a sequential manner as much as possible 
> while swapping large quantities of data is also advisable.
> 
> SWAP pages and corresponding transactions should be aligned to the SWAP page 
> size (i.e. 64KB above), the alignment should correspond to the physical 
> storage "LBA 0", i.e. to the first LBA of the storage device (and not to a 
> logical/physical partition).
> 



I have a curiosity on above comment is valid on Samsung and other eMMC.
Hyojin, Could you answer?


> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Arnd Bergmann [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 5:55 PM
>> To: Hugh Dickins
>> Cc: [email protected]; Rik van Riel; linux-
>> [email protected]; Alex Lemberg; [email protected]; Luca
>> Porzio (lporzio); [email protected]; Hyojin Jeong; kernel-
>> [email protected]; Yejin Moon
>> Subject: Re: swap on eMMC and other flash
>>
>> On Monday 02 April 2012, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Another option would be batched discard as we do it for file
>> systems:
>>>> occasionally stop writing to swap space and scanning for areas that
>>>> have become available since the last discard, then send discard
>>>> commands for those.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure whether you've missed "swapon --discard", which switches
>>> on discard_swap_cluster() just before we allocate from a new cluster;
>>> or whether you're musing that it's no use to you because you want to
>>> repurpose the swap cluster to match erase block: I'm mentioning it in
>>> case you missed that it's already there (but few use it, since even
>>> done at that scale it's often more trouble than it's worth).
>>
>> I actually argued that discard_swap_cluster is exactly the right thing
>> to do, especially when clusters match erase blocks on the less capable
>> devices like SD cards.
>>
>> Luca was arguing that on some hardware there is no point in ever
>> submitting a discard just before we start reusing space, because
>> at that point it the hardware already discards the old data by
>> overwriting the logical addresses with new blocks, while
>> issuing a discard on all blocks as soon as they become available
>> would make a bigger difference. I would be interested in hearing
>> from Hyojin Jeong and Alex Lemberg what they think is the best
>> time to issue a discard, because they would know about other hardware
>> than Luca.
>>
>>       Arnd
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