lightnvm: pblk: kick writer on new flush points

Unless we kick the writer directly when setting a new flush point, the
user risks having to wait for up to one second (the default timeout for
the write thread to be kicked) for the IO to complete.

Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This commit is contained in:
Hans Holmberg 2018-06-01 16:41:13 +02:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent b06be2873d
commit cc9c9a00b1
4 changed files with 10 additions and 7 deletions

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@ -44,13 +44,15 @@ retry:
goto out;
}
if (unlikely(!bio_has_data(bio)))
goto out;
pblk_ppa_set_empty(&w_ctx.ppa);
w_ctx.flags = flags;
if (bio->bi_opf & REQ_PREFLUSH)
if (bio->bi_opf & REQ_PREFLUSH) {
w_ctx.flags |= PBLK_FLUSH_ENTRY;
pblk_write_kick(pblk);
}
if (unlikely(!bio_has_data(bio)))
goto out;
for (i = 0; i < nr_entries; i++) {
void *data = bio_data(bio);

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@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ err:
return -1;
}
static void pblk_write_kick(struct pblk *pblk)
void pblk_write_kick(struct pblk *pblk)
{
wake_up_process(pblk->writer_ts);
mod_timer(&pblk->wtimer, jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(1000));

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@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ void pblk_rb_write_entry_gc(struct pblk_rb *rb, void *data,
}
static int pblk_rb_flush_point_set(struct pblk_rb *rb, struct bio *bio,
unsigned int pos)
unsigned int pos)
{
struct pblk_rb_entry *entry;
unsigned int sync, flush_point;
@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ void pblk_rb_flush(struct pblk_rb *rb)
if (pblk_rb_flush_point_set(rb, NULL, mem))
return;
pblk_write_should_kick(pblk);
pblk_write_kick(pblk);
}
static int pblk_rb_may_write_flush(struct pblk_rb *rb, unsigned int nr_entries,

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@ -851,6 +851,7 @@ void pblk_map_rq(struct pblk *pblk, struct nvm_rq *rqd, unsigned int sentry,
int pblk_write_ts(void *data);
void pblk_write_timer_fn(struct timer_list *t);
void pblk_write_should_kick(struct pblk *pblk);
void pblk_write_kick(struct pblk *pblk);
/*
* pblk read path