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Subject[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.13 106/189] dm writecache: commit just one block, not a full page
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From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit 991bd8d7bc78966b4dc427b53a144f276bffcd52 ]

Some architectures have pages larger than 4k and committing a full
page causes needless overhead.

Fix this by writing a single block when committing the superblock.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/md/dm-writecache.c | 6 +-----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c b/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
index a44007297e63..0e3a6c4bd5e3 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
@@ -532,11 +532,7 @@ static void ssd_commit_superblock(struct dm_writecache *wc)

region.bdev = wc->ssd_dev->bdev;
region.sector = 0;
- region.count = PAGE_SIZE >> SECTOR_SHIFT;
-
- if (unlikely(region.sector + region.count > wc->metadata_sectors))
- region.count = wc->metadata_sectors - region.sector;
-
+ region.count = wc->block_size >> SECTOR_SHIFT;
region.sector += wc->start_sector;

req.bi_op = REQ_OP_WRITE;
--
2.30.2
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