dm cache: be much more aggressive about promoting writes to discarded blocks
authorJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:10:28 +0000 (14:10 -0400)
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Sat, 9 Nov 2013 23:20:25 +0000 (18:20 -0500)
Previously these promotions only got priority if there were unused cache
blocks.  Now we give them priority if there are any clean blocks in the
cache.

The fio_soak_test in the device-mapper-test-suite now gives uniform
performance across subvolumes (~16 seconds).

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

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