Package: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64
Version: 2.6.32-27

According to the linux-2.6 package changelogs ATA trim functionality were
added with version 2.6.32-12:

linux-2.6 (2.6.32-12) unstable; urgency=low
* The "Microwave Background" release
...
[ maximilian attems]
...
* Add libata TRIM support.
...

It seems that the TRIM patch does not works properly with my SSD an OCZ Vertex
2 Extended 60GB (OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G).

Generally the Trim functionality could be tested with the following commands:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=tempfile count=100 bs=512k oflag=direct
hdparm --fibmap tempfile
hdparm --read-sector [ADDRESS] /dev/sdX
rm tempfile
sync
hdparm --read-sector [ADDRESS] /dev/sdX

After the last command the output should be only zero values, but I get non
zero values:

hdparm --read-sector 26854400 /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
reading sector 26854400: succeeded
4442 4465 6cd6 5bc4 42bc f78b 9258 bf66
a024 ebca 5a8f e3f2 4886 9dea 9b50 2b45
...

I'd tried the same commands with a manually compiled 2.6.36 kernel. With this
kernel I got zero values. It seems that there were changes in 2.6.3[3-6]
kernels which had fixed the issue.

Furthermore
/sys/block/sda/queue/discard_zeroes_data,
/sys/block/sda/queue/discard_max_entry and
/sys/block/sda/queue/discard_granularity
are not present with 2.6.32-27, but with 2.6.36.

The discard zero indication feature were added with following commit (2.6.33
kernel series): http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git-commits-
head/2009/12/8/16006

[Max entry and granularity were annotated here:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg40360.html and
http://www.spinics.net/lists/dm-devel/msg12155.html
(http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/common.git;a=commitdiff;h=86b37281411cf1e9bc0a6b54 06c45edb7bd9ea5d)]

Available should be all three attributes in 2.6.33.

Maybe this could explain the difference between 2.6.32-27 and generic kernel
2.6.36. Eventually SandForce devices did not return zero blocks after discard
and the ATA Trim works properly with my drive...


mount:
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro,discard)
...

SSD capabilities:
hdparm -I /dev/sda
...
* Data Set Management TRIM supported
* Deterministic read data after TRIM
...

sysfs queue directory:
ls -la /sys/block/sda/queue/
insgesamt 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 16. Nov 19:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 16. Nov 19:55 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:49 hw_sector_size
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 16. Nov 20:49 iosched
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:49 iostats
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:49 logical_block_size
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:49 max_hw_sectors_kb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:49 max_sectors_kb
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:49 minimum_io_size
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:49 nomerges
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:49 nr_requests
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:49 optimal_io_size
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:49 physical_block_size
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:49 read_ahead_kb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:49 rotational
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 16. Nov 20:49 rq_affinity
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 16. Nov 19:55 scheduler



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