lightnvm: pblk: kick writer on new flush points

Unless we kick the writer directly when setting a new flush point, the
user risks having to wait for up to one second (the default timeout for
the write thread to be kicked) for the IO to complete.

Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Hans Holmberg
2018-06-01 16:41:13 +02:00
committed by Jens Axboe
parent b06be2873d
commit cc9c9a00b1
4 changed files with 10 additions and 7 deletions

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@@ -851,6 +851,7 @@ void pblk_map_rq(struct pblk *pblk, struct nvm_rq *rqd, unsigned int sentry,
int pblk_write_ts(void *data);
void pblk_write_timer_fn(struct timer_list *t);
void pblk_write_should_kick(struct pblk *pblk);
void pblk_write_kick(struct pblk *pblk);
/*
* pblk read path