dm bufio: update last_accessed when relinking a buffer

The 'last_accessed' member of the dm_buffer structure was only set when
the the buffer was created.  This led to each buffer being discarded
after dm_bufio_max_age time even if it was used recently.  In practice
this resulted in all thinp metadata being evicted soon after being read
-- this is particularly problematic for metadata intensive workloads
like multithreaded small random IO.

'last_accessed' is now updated each time the buffer is moved to the head
of the LRU list, so the buffer is now properly discarded if it was not
used in dm_bufio_max_age time.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.2+

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
index ab472c5..eab64bc 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
@@ -465,6 +465,7 @@ static void __relink_lru(struct dm_buffer *b, int dirty)
        c->n_buffers[dirty]++;
        b->list_mode = dirty;
        list_move(&b->lru_list, &c->lru[dirty]);
+       b->last_accessed = jiffies;
 }
 
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