Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 16:40:13 -0500 From: Dustin Marquess <dmarquess@gmail.com> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bhyve, Windows guest and trim support Message-ID: <CAJpsHY6KmhKT5jQ_2RU7N7c-t5q%2BURDE0d%2B8mjDdzuz1Pz69WA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e15ba239-9a73-2821-1f42-1700d74d031b@netfence.it> References: <e15ba239-9a73-2821-1f42-1700d74d031b@netfence.it>
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Try nvme, I believe that driver supports TRIM and I've had a lot better performance with it over ahci-hd. -Dustin On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 12:24 PM Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote: > > Hello. > > I'm running zvol-backed Windows guests in bhyve on FreeBSD 12.1. > Over time, I see the zvol effectively used space grow in size: a sign > that Windows isn't trimming it. > > I'm using virtio-blk: I guess this driver does not support trim? > I see reports that this support was added, but it's not clear to me > whether it's in the released version or not (I've downloaded the stable > binary ISO from RedHat). > Is trim expected to work in such a scenario? > If not, is it a bhyve problem or a guest-driver problem (or both)? > > I tried virtio-scsi, which should support trim, but the guest doesn't > even start in this case, getting stuck at the UEFI boot stage and ending > up in UEFI prompt. > Again, is this expected? > No guest driver has been loaded yet, so is it a bhyve limitation? > Is some tweak needed? > > I tried changing from virtio-blk to ahci-hd: I was then able to manually > trim the disk from inside the guest and recover a lot of space in the zpool. > Alas ahci-hd is much slower, so I moved back to virtio-blk after that > (at least for the time being). > > bye & Thanks > av. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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