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2013-09-24bcache: Fix a writeback performance regressionKent Overstreet
Background writeback works by scanning the btree for dirty data and adding those keys into a fixed size buffer, then for each dirty key in the keybuf writing it to the backing device. When read_dirty() finishes and it's time to scan for more dirty data, we need to wait for the outstanding writeback IO to finish - they still take up slots in the keybuf (so that foreground writes can check for them to avoid races) - without that wait, we'll continually rescan when we'll be able to add at most a key or two to the keybuf, and that takes locks that starves foreground IO. Doh. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com> Cc: linux-stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # >= v3.10 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-01bcache: Use standard utility codeKent Overstreet
Some of bcache's utility code has made it into the rest of the kernel, so drop the bcache versions. Bcache used to have a workaround for allocating from a bio set under generic_make_request() (if you allocated more than once, the bios you already allocated would get stuck on current->bio_list when you submitted, and you'd risk deadlock) - bcache would mask out __GFP_WAIT when allocating bios under generic_make_request() so that allocation could fail and it could retry from workqueue. But bio_alloc_bioset() has a workaround now, so we can drop this hack and the associated error handling. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
2013-04-08bcache: Fix a format string overflowKent Overstreet
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
2013-04-08bcache: Sparse fixesKent Overstreet
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
2013-03-28bcache: Don't export utility code, prefix with bch_Kent Overstreet
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-03-23bcache: A block layer cacheKent Overstreet
Does writethrough and writeback caching, handles unclean shutdown, and has a bunch of other nifty features motivated by real world usage. See the wiki at http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org for more. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>