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authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>2021-06-15 14:17:35 -0400
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>2021-06-15 15:42:03 -0400
commit293128b1ef5ae2cfa7403d54e183fe689ed5d303 (patch)
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dm writecache: have ssd writeback wait if the kcopyd workqueue is busy
Make dm-writecache wait if the kcopyd workqueue is busy (as will happen if waiting for page allocation or inside submit_bio). This change improves performance of "mkfs.ext2" by approximately 20% on one testbed. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c6
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-writecache.c5
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c b/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c
index e50625ce74ec..37b03ab7e5c9 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c
@@ -980,3 +980,9 @@ void dm_kcopyd_client_destroy(struct dm_kcopyd_client *kc)
kfree(kc);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dm_kcopyd_client_destroy);
+
+void dm_kcopyd_client_flush(struct dm_kcopyd_client *kc)
+{
+ flush_workqueue(kc->kcopyd_wq);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(dm_kcopyd_client_flush);
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c b/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
index 56179a21db0e..28bb6890fcf4 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
@@ -1812,6 +1812,11 @@ static void writecache_writeback(struct work_struct *work)
struct writeback_list wbl;
unsigned long n_walked;
+ if (!WC_MODE_PMEM(wc)) {
+ /* Wait for any active kcopyd work on behalf of ssd writeback */
+ dm_kcopyd_client_flush(wc->dm_kcopyd);
+ }
+
wc_lock(wc);
restart:
if (writecache_has_error(wc)) {