I revert this commit: diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/request.c b/drivers/md/bcache/request.c index e5ff12e..2f36743 100644 --- a/drivers/md/bcache/request.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/request.c @@ -489,6 +489,12 @@ static void bch_insert_data_loop(struct closure *cl) bch_queue_gc(op->c); } + /* + * Journal writes are marked REQ_FLUSH; if the original write was a + * flush, it'll wait on the journal write. + */ + bio->bi_rw &= ~(REQ_FLUSH|REQ_FUA); + do { unsigned i; struct bkey *k; @@ -716,7 +722,7 @@ static struct search *search_alloc(struct bio *bio, struct bcache_device *d) s->task = current; s->orig_bio = bio; s->write = (bio->bi_rw & REQ_WRITE) != 0; - s->op.flush_journal = (bio->bi_rw & REQ_FLUSH) != 0; + s->op.flush_journal = (bio->bi_rw & (REQ_FLUSH|REQ_FUA)) != 0; s->op.skip = (bio->bi_rw & REQ_DISCARD) != 0; s->recoverable = 1; s->start_time = jiffies; diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c index 6817ea4..0932580 100644 --- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c @@ -766,6 +766,8 @@ static int bcache_device_init(struct bcache_device *d, unsigned block_size) set_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, &d->disk->queue->queue_flags); set_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD, &d->disk->queue->queue_flags); + blk_queue_flush(q, REQ_FLUSH|REQ_FUA); + return 0; } the strange behaviour is gone. And I checked the bcache-testing, it does not contain that commit any more, maybe I'm lost in the git tree update. Anyway, thanks Kent for your kindly support. Jack On 2013年04月22日 21:15, Jack Wang wrote: > Hi all, > > We've seen strange behaviour in bcache mode in current bcache-testing > branch with Possible allocator fix: > > Once I start writing data with "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/bcache0 bs=4k > count=10000 oflag=sync", all SSDs in the Pool go close to 100% util and > I see about 3600 writes/second in iostat for each disk in the pool, BUT > no data written in means of throughput. > > Then after some seconds (the flush interval of bcache) I see the flush > of the writeback and also data written to the pool SSDs which looks > pretty much like reordering and merging happened for that data. > > bcache-3.2 does not have such problem. > only bcache(master) and bcache-testing have such problem. > > What's the possible reason? > > Regards, > Jack > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html