3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx> commit eb76faf53b1ff7a77ce3f78cc98ad392ac70c2a0 upstream. The 'last_accessed' member of the dm_buffer structure was only set when the the buffer was created. This led to each buffer being discarded after dm_bufio_max_age time even if it was used recently. In practice this resulted in all thinp metadata being evicted soon after being read -- this is particularly problematic for metadata intensive workloads like multithreaded small random IO. 'last_accessed' is now updated each time the buffer is moved to the head of the LRU list, so the buffer is now properly discarded if it was not used in dm_bufio_max_age time. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c @@ -465,6 +465,7 @@ static void __relink_lru(struct dm_buffe c->n_buffers[dirty]++; b->list_mode = dirty; list_move(&b->lru_list, &c->lru[dirty]); + b->last_accessed = jiffies; } /*---------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html