| commit | cc7e394024770d4bfd8463fab1a9e2e262a7d7c1 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> | Fri Mar 31 10:46:54 2017 -0400 |
| committer | Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> | Fri Mar 31 11:41:05 2017 -0400 |
| tree | 2b2f2007229a2ec5bb26cb4edd0dd81216f43959 | |
| parent | 449b668ce0b9069fcaafa6344c7f10fa2ba9632e [diff] |
dm cache policy smq: make the cleaner policy write-back more aggressively By ignoring the sentinels the cleaner policy is able to write-back dirty cache data much faster. There is no reason to respect the sentinels, which denote that a block was changed recently, when using the cleaner policy given that the cleaner is tasked with writing back all dirty data. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>