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Implementation reuses dm_io_tracker, that until now was only used by
dm-cache, to track if any writes were issued directly to the origin
(due to cache being full) within the last second. If so writeback is
paused for a second.

This change improves performance for when the cache is full and IO is
issued directly to the origin device (rather than through the cache).

Depends-on: d53f1fa ("dm writecache: do direct write if the cache is full")
Suggested-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Mikulas Patocka authored and Mike Snitzer committed Jun 25, 2021
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21 changes: 20 additions & 1 deletion drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
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#include <linux/dax.h>
#include <linux/pfn_t.h>
#include <linux/libnvdimm.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include "dm-io-tracker.h"

#define DM_MSG_PREFIX "writecache"

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struct work_struct writeback_work;
struct work_struct flush_work;

struct dm_io_tracker iot;

struct dm_io_client *dm_io;

raw_spinlock_t endio_list_lock;
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}

unlock_remap_origin:
if (bio_data_dir(bio) != READ) {
dm_iot_io_begin(&wc->iot, 1);
bio->bi_private = (void *)2;
}
bio_set_dev(bio, wc->dev->bdev);
wc_unlock(wc);
return DM_MAPIO_REMAPPED;
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{
struct dm_writecache *wc = ti->private;

if (bio->bi_private != NULL) {
if (bio->bi_private == (void *)1) {
int dir = bio_data_dir(bio);
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&wc->bio_in_progress[dir]))
if (unlikely(waitqueue_active(&wc->bio_in_progress_wait[dir])))
wake_up(&wc->bio_in_progress_wait[dir]);
} else if (bio->bi_private == (void *)2) {
dm_iot_io_end(&wc->iot, 1);
}
return 0;
}
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dm_kcopyd_client_flush(wc->dm_kcopyd);
}

if (!wc->writeback_all && !dm_suspended(wc->ti)) {
while (!dm_iot_idle_for(&wc->iot, HZ)) {
cond_resched();
msleep(1000);
}
}

wc_lock(wc);
restart:
if (writecache_has_error(wc)) {
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INIT_WORK(&wc->writeback_work, writecache_writeback);
INIT_WORK(&wc->flush_work, writecache_flush_work);

dm_iot_init(&wc->iot);

raw_spin_lock_init(&wc->endio_list_lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wc->endio_list);
wc->endio_thread = kthread_create(writecache_endio_thread, wc, "writecache_endio");
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