I noticed this problem. This patch alone is not enough to fix it. I will send my patch for this soon. Thanks, Song > On Dec 4, 2016, at 12:44 AM, Zhengyuan Liu <liuzhengyuan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Currently, we choice write-through mode as the default journal mode. > If there is data-only stripes, we'd rewrite it and add it into raid5d > release list. However, raid5d thread wouldn't put those stripes into > cache(full/partial) list but inactive list instead since the journal > mode is write-through. More futher, later read request would get data > from raid disk directly instead of cache stripe, that's not we want too. > > Signed-off-by: Zhengyuan Liu <liuzhengyuan@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/md/raid5-cache.c | 6 +++++- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c b/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c > index 07bce0e..0473b33 100644 > --- a/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c > +++ b/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c > @@ -2606,7 +2606,6 @@ int r5l_init_log(struct r5conf *conf, struct md_rdev *rdev) > > INIT_WORK(&log->deferred_io_work, r5l_submit_io_async); > > - log->r5c_journal_mode = R5C_JOURNAL_MODE_WRITE_THROUGH; > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&log->stripe_in_journal_list); > spin_lock_init(&log->stripe_in_journal_lock); > atomic_set(&log->stripe_in_journal_count, 0); > @@ -2614,6 +2613,11 @@ int r5l_init_log(struct r5conf *conf, struct md_rdev *rdev) > if (r5l_load_log(log)) > goto error; > > + if (log->last_checkpoint == log->next_checkpoint) > + log->r5c_journal_mode = R5C_JOURNAL_MODE_WRITE_THROUGH; > + else > + log->r5c_journal_mode = R5C_JOURNAL_MODE_WRITE_BACK; > + > rcu_assign_pointer(conf->log, log); > set_bit(MD_HAS_JOURNAL, &conf->mddev->flags); > return 0; > -- > 2.7.4 > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html