>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenb...@linbit.com> writes:

Lars> Because the way we do some internal bookkeeping, we announce a max
Lars> discard of 4 MiB.  

Yikes!

Lars> Similar for the WRITE_SAME interface (which we do not properly
Lars> support on the DRBD protocol level yet -- backward compatibility
Lars> concerns -- but intend to support "soon").

Yeah, WRITE SAME can take a long time to complete too. However, we're
typically issuing them 32 megs at a time.

Lars> If we only have a synchronous interface, we will probably have to
Lars> either add some "async wrapper", or defer such submissions to
Lars> worker threads.  I'd prefer to have an async submit path.

OK, I'll chew on it.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen      Oracle Linux Engineering
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