lightnvm: pblk: start gc if needed during init

Start GC if needed, directly after init, as we might
need to garbage collect in order to make room for user writes.

Create a helper function that allows to kick GC without exposing the
internals of the GC/rate-limiter interaction.

Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Hans Holmberg
2017-10-13 14:46:37 +02:00
committed by Jens Axboe
parent 37ce33d575
commit 03661b5f75
4 changed files with 12 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -1025,6 +1025,10 @@ static void *pblk_init(struct nvm_tgt_dev *dev, struct gendisk *tdisk,
pblk->rwb.nr_entries);
wake_up_process(pblk->writer_ts);
/* Check if we need to start GC */
pblk_gc_should_kick(pblk);
return pblk;
fail_stop_writer: