This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bcache: Fix a flush/fua performance bug
to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
bcache-fix-a-flush-fua-performance-bug.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 1394d6761b6e9e15ee7c632a6d48791188727b40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:17:32 -0700
Subject: bcache: Fix a flush/fua performance bug
From: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 1394d6761b6e9e15ee7c632a6d48791188727b40 upstream.
bch_journal_meta() was missing the flush to make the journal write
actually go down (instead of waiting up to journal_delay_ms)...
Whoops
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/bcache/journal.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c
@@ -692,6 +692,7 @@ void bch_journal_meta(struct cache_set *
if (cl)
BUG_ON(!closure_wait(&w->wait, cl));
+ closure_flush(&c->journal.io);
__journal_try_write(c, true);
}
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.10/bcache-fix-a-flush-fua-performance-bug.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-fix-for-when-no-journal-entries-are-found.patch
queue-3.10/block-fix-bio_copy_data.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-fix-for-handling-overlapping-extents-when-reading-in-a-btree-node.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-fix-a-dumb-cpu-spinning-bug-in-writeback.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-strip-endline-when-writing-the-label-through-sysfs.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-fix-flushes-in-writeback-mode.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-fix-a-shrinker-deadlock.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-fix-a-writeback-performance-regression.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-fix-a-dumb-journal-discard-bug.patch
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