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Commit 3bcebc5b authored by Hans Holmberg's avatar Hans Holmberg Committed by Jens Axboe
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lightnvm: pblk: set conservative threshold for user writes



In a worst-case scenario (random writes), OP% of sectors
in each line will be invalid, and we will then need
to move data out of 100/OP% lines to free a single line.

So, to prevent the possibility of running out of lines,
temporarily block user writes when there is less than
100/OP% free lines.

Also ensure that pblk creation does not produce instances
with insufficient over provisioning.

Insufficient over-provising is not a problem on real hardware,
but often an issue when running QEMU simulations (with few lines).
100 lines is enough to create a sane instance with the standard
(11%) over provisioning.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJavier González <javier@javigon.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 525f7bb2
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