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Commit c2a4f318 authored by Kent Overstreet's avatar Kent Overstreet Committed by Linus Torvalds
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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: default avatarKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: linux-stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # >= v3.10
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 61cbd250
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