From: Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com
[ Upstream commit 991bd8d7bc78966b4dc427b53a144f276bffcd52 ]
Some architectures have pages larger than 4k and committing a full page causes needless overhead.
Fix this by writing a single block when committing the superblock.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer snitzer@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/md/dm-writecache.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c b/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c index 7bb4d83e90cc..51b26db56ba9 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c @@ -532,11 +532,7 @@ static void ssd_commit_superblock(struct dm_writecache *wc)
region.bdev = wc->ssd_dev->bdev; region.sector = 0; - region.count = PAGE_SIZE >> SECTOR_SHIFT; - - if (unlikely(region.sector + region.count > wc->metadata_sectors)) - region.count = wc->metadata_sectors - region.sector; - + region.count = wc->block_size >> SECTOR_SHIFT; region.sector += wc->start_sector;
req.bi_op = REQ_OP_WRITE;