>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Yan <tom.t...@gmail.com> writes:

Tom> So when libata issue ATA commands with ranges of 65535 sectors,
Tom> only 65535-(65535%8) = 65528 sectors are discarded,

That's unfortunate but TRIM is advisory so the drive is free to ignore
all or parts of the request.

What happens if you discard sectors 0-6 and then sector 7?

Tom> I can workaround this by specifying --step in blkdiscard, but I
Tom> think the kernel should have a param configurable for general.

This is on the Intel 530? What does the drive report in
/sys/block/sdN/queue/discard_zeroes_data?

-- 
Martin K. Petersen      Oracle Linux Engineering
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