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authorKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>2013-09-23 23:17:31 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-24 14:41:43 -0700
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bcache: Fix a writeback performance regression
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>
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