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Coly Li committed 141df8bb5dc
bcache: don't set max writeback rate if gc is running When gc is running, user space I/O processes may wait inside bcache code, so no new I/O coming. Indeed this is not a real idle time, maximum writeback rate should not be set in such situation. Otherwise a faster writeback thread may compete locks with gc thread and makes garbage collection slower, which results a longer I/O freeze period. This patch checks c->gc_mark_valid in set_at_max_writeback_rate(). If c->gc_mark_valid is 0 (gc running), set_at_max_writeback_rate() returns false, then update_writeback_rate() will not set writeback rate to maximum value even c->idle_counter reaches an idle threshold. Now writeback thread won't interfere gc thread performance. Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>