Description of problem: When lvremove is used to remove a lv from a thinpool, lvremove asks whether to DISCARD it, but it does not discard the blocks. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): lvm2-2.02.132-2.fc23 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. lvcreate --name test -V 1G --thinpool ssd/thinp 2. lvremove /dev/ssd/test 3. Answer y to "Do you really want to remove and DISCARD active logical volume test? [y/n]:" Actual results: lv is removed without discarding blocks Expected results: blocks used by the LV should be discarded Additional info: Discards can be monitored with strace or blktrace -a issue -d /dev/sda -o - | blkparse -i - | grep 'D.*D'
(In reply to Till Maas from comment #0) > Description of problem: > When lvremove is used to remove a lv from a thinpool, lvremove asks whether > to DISCARD it, but it does not discard the blocks. > This is misunderstanding of 'issue_discard' lvm.conf option. This option specifies what is going to happen with just released 'extents' in your VG - while when you remove any 'thin' LV there are no released extents. They all still belong to running thin-pool - which is the 'exclusive' owner of extents. Note - there was a bug in some fc23 kernel where discard support has got broken, so make sure you have the right kernel. But when you release thin in thin-pool - you should see instant drop of used space (if your LV was holding exclusively provisioned blocks).
(In reply to Zdenek Kabelac from comment #1) > This option specifies what is going to happen with just released 'extents' > in your VG - while when you remove any 'thin' LV there are no released > extents. > They all still belong to running thin-pool - which is the 'exclusive' owner > of > extents. lvremove says it will discard the blocks: "Do you really want to remove and DISCARD active logical volume test? [y/n]:" So if lvremove is expected to not discard the blocks, then the prompt needs to be changed, therefore this is still a bug IMHO. Nevertheless, it also makes sense to discard the blocks, even if they still belong to a thinpool, therefore I hope you will implement this, even if this is a feature request and the bad prompt is the bug at the moment. > Note - there was a bug in some fc23 kernel where discard support has got > broken, so make sure you have the right kernel. > > But when you release thin in thin-pool - you should see instant drop > of used space (if your LV was holding exclusively provisioned blocks). discard works with the kernel, but lvm2 uses bad code to figure out whether discard is supported as reported in bug 1313377
Comment https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313377#c6 from Alasdair Kergon: | Yes, lvremove ought to be able to discard thin volumes before removing them. | We need to fix that.
So switching to 'RFE' as that's nontrivial amount of work. Kernel target on its own is not discarding released chunks and such discard is supposed to happen within user-space context. Discard itself on large volume might take quite while so it's not viable to be made while holding VG lock. As a 'workaround' user may ATM run 'blkdiscard' prior calling lvremove. For now LV support only discards an 'empty' PV space - but in this case where thin-pool is still holder of released space, we cannot follow the meaning of issue_discard - and will need to extend it to allow running discard while LV is still active (so there are going to be races to think about). The work on such discard support is likely related to fixing prompt for lvremove and also removal of mutliple LVs efficiently (i.e. when whole pool is removed we should not slowly discard individual thin LVs)
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