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We've had reports of online discard operations being sent from XFS on write-only workloads. These discards occur as a result of eofblocks trims that can occur after a large file copy completes. These discards are slightly confusing for users who might be paying close attention to online discards (i.e., vdo) due to performance sensitivity. They also happen to be spurious because freed post-eof blocks by definition have not been written to during the current allocation cycle. Update xfs_free_eofblocks() to skip discards that are purely attributed to eofblocks trims. This cuts down the number of spurious discards that may occur on write-only workloads due to normal preallocation activity. Note that discards of post-eof extents can still occur from other codepaths that do not isolate handling of post-eof blocks from those within eof. For example, file unlinks and truncates may still cause discards for any file blocks affected by the operation. Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
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