dm writecache: fix performance degradation in ssd mode
authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Sat, 23 Jan 2021 14:19:56 +0000 (09:19 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 4 Mar 2021 10:38:44 +0000 (11:38 +0100)
commit cb728484a7710c202f02b96aa0962ce9b07aa5c2 upstream.

Fix a thinko in ssd_commit_superblock. region.count is in sectors, not
bytes. This bug doesn't corrupt data, but it causes performance
degradation.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Fixes: dc8a01ae1dbd ("dm writecache: optimize superblock write")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.7+
Reported-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/md/dm-writecache.c

index d5223a0..1769653 100644 (file)
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ static void ssd_commit_superblock(struct dm_writecache *wc)
 
        region.bdev = wc->ssd_dev->bdev;
        region.sector = 0;
-       region.count = PAGE_SIZE;
+       region.count = PAGE_SIZE >> SECTOR_SHIFT;
 
        if (unlikely(region.sector + region.count > wc->metadata_sectors))
                region.count = wc->metadata_sectors - region.sector;