linux/drivers/md
Joe Thornber e65ff8703f dm cache policy mq: try not to writeback data that changed in the last second
Writeback takes out a lock on the cache block, so will increase the
latency for any concurrent io.

This patch works by placing 2 sentinel objects on each level of the
multiqueues.  Every WRITEBACK_PERIOD the oldest sentinel gets moved to
the newest end of the queue level.

When looking for writeback work:
  if less than 25% of the cache is clean:
    we select the oldest object with the lowest hit count
  otherwise:
    we select the oldest object that is not past a writeback sentinel.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-03-31 12:03:48 -04:00
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bcache md/bcache: use generic io stats accounting functions to simplify io stat accounting 2014-11-24 08:05:12 -07:00
persistent-data - Significant dm-crypt CPU scalability performance improvements thanks 2015-02-21 13:28:45 -08:00
bitmap.c md: remove mddev_lock() from md_attr_show() 2015-02-06 09:32:55 +11:00
bitmap.h kernfs: s/sysfs_dirent/kernfs_node/ and rename its friends accordingly 2013-12-11 15:28:36 -08:00
dm-bio-prison.c dm bio prison: introduce support for locking ranges of blocks 2014-11-10 15:25:30 -05:00
dm-bio-prison.h dm bio prison: introduce support for locking ranges of blocks 2014-11-10 15:25:30 -05:00
dm-bio-record.h dm: Refactor for new bio cloning/splitting 2013-11-23 22:33:55 -08:00
dm-bufio.c dm bufio: fix time comparison to use time_after_eq() 2015-02-09 13:06:48 -05:00
dm-bufio.h dm snapshot: use dm-bufio prefetch 2014-01-14 23:23:03 -05:00
dm-builtin.c dm sysfs: fix a module unload race 2014-01-14 23:23:04 -05:00
dm-cache-block-types.h dm cache: revert "remove remainder of distinct discard block size" 2014-11-10 15:25:30 -05:00
dm-cache-metadata.c dm cache: fix missing ERR_PTR returns and handling 2015-01-28 09:59:20 -05:00
dm-cache-metadata.h dm cache: revert "remove remainder of distinct discard block size" 2014-11-10 15:25:30 -05:00
dm-cache-policy-cleaner.c dm cache: policy change version from string to integer set 2013-03-20 17:21:27 +00:00
dm-cache-policy-internal.h dm cache: add remove_cblock method to policy interface 2013-11-11 11:37:50 -05:00
dm-cache-policy-mq.c dm cache policy mq: try not to writeback data that changed in the last second 2015-03-31 12:03:48 -04:00
dm-cache-policy.c dm cache: add policy name to status output 2014-01-16 13:44:11 -05:00
dm-cache-policy.h dm cache: add policy name to status output 2014-01-16 13:44:11 -05:00
dm-cache-target.c - Most significant change this cycle is request-based DM now supports 2015-02-12 16:36:31 -08:00
dm-crypt.c dm crypt: sort writes 2015-02-16 11:11:15 -05:00
dm-delay.c Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
dm-era-target.c dm era: check for a non-NULL metadata object before closing it 2014-06-03 13:44:08 -04:00
dm-exception-store.c dm: replace simple_strtoul 2012-07-27 15:07:59 +01:00
dm-exception-store.h
dm-flakey.c block: Abstract out bvec iterator 2013-11-23 22:33:47 -08:00
dm-io.c dm io: deal with wandering queue limits when handling REQ_DISCARD and REQ_WRITE_SAME 2015-02-27 14:53:32 -05:00
dm-ioctl.c dm ioctl: fix stale comment above dm_get_inactive_table() 2015-02-09 13:06:48 -05:00
dm-kcopyd.c dm: stop using WQ_NON_REENTRANT 2013-08-23 09:02:13 -04:00
dm-linear.c block: Abstract out bvec iterator 2013-11-23 22:33:47 -08:00
dm-log-userspace-base.c dm log userspace: split flush_entry_pool to be per dirty-log 2015-03-31 12:03:47 -04:00
dm-log-userspace-transfer.c dm log userspace: fix memory leak in dm_ulog_tfr_init failure path 2014-10-05 20:03:38 -04:00
dm-log-userspace-transfer.h
dm-log.c dm: use memweight() 2012-07-30 17:25:16 -07:00
dm-mpath.c dm mpath: simplify failure path of dm_multipath_init() 2015-02-09 13:06:49 -05:00
dm-mpath.h
dm-path-selector.c
dm-path-selector.h
dm-queue-length.c dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input 2012-03-28 18:41:26 +01:00
dm-raid1.c dm mirror: do not degrade the mirror on discard error 2015-02-13 19:50:46 -05:00
dm-raid.c - Most significant change this cycle is request-based DM now supports 2015-02-12 16:36:31 -08:00
dm-region-hash.c block: Abstract out bvec iterator 2013-11-23 22:33:47 -08:00
dm-round-robin.c dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input 2012-03-28 18:41:26 +01:00
dm-service-time.c dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input 2012-03-28 18:41:26 +01:00
dm-snap-persistent.c dm snapshot: remove unnecessary NULL checks before vfree() calls 2015-02-09 13:06:49 -05:00
dm-snap-transient.c
dm-snap.c dm snapshot: suspend merging snapshot when doing exception handover 2015-02-27 14:53:16 -05:00
dm-stats.c - Significant DM thin-provisioning performance improvements to meet 2014-12-08 21:10:03 -08:00
dm-stats.h dm: add statistics support 2013-09-05 20:46:06 -04:00
dm-stripe.c dm stripe: fix potential for leak in stripe_ctr error path 2014-10-10 22:05:18 -04:00
dm-switch.c dm switch: efficiently support repetitive patterns 2014-08-01 12:30:37 -04:00
dm-sysfs.c dm sysfs: fix a module unload race 2014-01-14 23:23:04 -05:00
dm-table.c dm: inherit QUEUE_FLAG_SG_GAPS flags from underlying queues 2015-02-11 10:25:46 -05:00
dm-target.c dm: allocate requests in target when stacking on blk-mq devices 2015-02-09 13:06:47 -05:00
dm-thin-metadata.c dm thin metadata: remove unused dm_pool_get_data_block_size() 2015-02-09 13:06:49 -05:00
dm-thin-metadata.h dm thin metadata: remove unused dm_pool_get_data_block_size() 2015-02-09 13:06:49 -05:00
dm-thin.c dm thin: fix to consistently zero-fill reads to unprovisioned blocks 2015-02-27 09:59:12 -05:00
dm-uevent.c
dm-uevent.h
dm-verity.c dm verity: fix biovecs hash calculation regression 2014-04-15 12:19:24 -04:00
dm-zero.c dm crypt, dm zero: update author name following legal name change 2014-07-10 16:44:14 -04:00
dm.c dm: fix add_disk() NULL pointer due to race with free_dev() 2015-03-23 18:14:00 -04:00
dm.h dm table: train hybrid target type detection to select blk-mq if appropriate 2015-02-09 13:06:47 -05:00
faulty.c md: rename ->stop to ->free 2015-02-04 08:35:52 +11:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2015-02-19 10:36:45 -08:00
linear.c md: rename ->stop to ->free 2015-02-04 08:35:52 +11:00
linear.h
Makefile dm: add era target 2014-03-27 16:56:23 -04:00
md.c md: fix problems with freeing private data after ->run failure. 2015-03-21 09:40:36 +11:00
md.h md: wakeup thread upon rdev_dec_pending() 2015-02-06 09:32:57 +11:00
multipath.c md: rename ->stop to ->free 2015-02-04 08:35:52 +11:00
multipath.h
raid0.c md: fix problems with freeing private data after ->run failure. 2015-03-21 09:40:36 +11:00
raid0.h
raid1.c md/raid1: fix read balance when a drive is write-mostly. 2015-02-25 11:37:02 +11:00
raid1.h md: make ->congested robust against personality changes. 2015-02-04 08:35:52 +11:00
raid5.c raid5: check faulty flag for array status during recovery. 2015-02-25 11:38:26 +11:00
raid5.h md: make ->congested robust against personality changes. 2015-02-04 08:35:52 +11:00
raid10.c md/raid10: round up to bdev_logical_block_size in narrow_write_error. 2015-02-16 14:51:54 +11:00
raid10.h md: make ->congested robust against personality changes. 2015-02-04 08:35:52 +11:00