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Song Liu committed 39b99586b32
md/r5cache: improve journal device efficiency It is important to be able to flush all stripes in raid5-cache. Therefore, we need reserve some space on the journal device for these flushes. If flush operation includes pending writes to the stripe, we need to reserve (conf->raid_disk + 1) pages per stripe for the flush out. This reduces the efficiency of journal space. If we exclude these pending writes from flush operation, we only need (conf->max_degraded + 1) pages per stripe. With this patch, when log space is critical (R5C_LOG_CRITICAL=1), pending writes will be excluded from stripe flush out. Therefore, we can reduce reserved space for flush out and thus improve journal device efficiency. Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>