Re: bcache: Fix a writeback performance regression

From: Stefan Priebe
Date: Sun Aug 18 2013 - 18:09:27 EST



Vanilla 3.10.7 + bcache: Fix a writeback performance regression

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=LXZk4cMH

Stefan

Am 16.08.2013 12:11, schrieb Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG:
Hi,

bcache: Fix a writeback performance regression

this one results in 3.10 into hung tasks in bcache_writeback read_dirty.

Stefan
Am 15.08.2013 08:43, schrieb Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG:
Am 15.08.2013 00:59, schrieb Kent Overstreet:
Jens, here's the latest bcache fixes. Some urgent stuff in here:


The following changes since commit 79826c35eb99cd3c0873b8396f45fa26c87fb0b0:

bcache: Allocation kthread fixes (2013-07-12 00:22:49 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

git://evilpiepirate.org/~kent/linux-bcache.git bcache-for-3.11

for you to fetch changes up to 0434a516e99ee51ac2d0dfa71b2f56c89ac5db05:

bcache: Fix a flush/fua performance bug (2013-08-14 15:44:51 -0700)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Gabriel de Perthuis (1):
bcache: Strip endline when writing the label through sysfs

Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
bcache: Correct printf()-style format length modifier

Kent Overstreet (4):
bcache: Fix a dumb journal discard bug
bcache: Fix for when no journal entries are found
bcache: Fix a writeback performance regression
bcache: Fix a flush/fua performance bug

drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h | 7 +++----
drivers/md/bcache/btree.c | 2 +-
drivers/md/bcache/journal.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------
drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c | 9 +++++++--
drivers/md/bcache/util.c | 11 ++++++++++-
drivers/md/bcache/util.h | 12 +++++++++---
drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------
7 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
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As 3.10 is long term stable release. You might need CC the stable list
for patches which have to go to 3.10 as well.

At least this one should go to 3.10:
Gabriel de Perthuis (1):
bcache: Strip endline when writing the label through sysfs

Thanks!

Greets,
Stefan

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