From 4d1662a30dde6e545086fe0e8fd7e474c4e0b639 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Snitzer Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 06:08:56 -0500 Subject: dm thin: avoid metadata commit if a pool's thin devices haven't changed Commit 905e51b ("dm thin: commit outstanding data every second") introduced a periodic commit. This commit occurs regardless of whether any thin devices have made changes. Fix the periodic commit to check if any of a pool's thin devices have changed using dm_pool_changed_this_transaction(). Reported-by: Alexander Larsson Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Acked-by: Joe Thornber Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/md/dm-thin.c') diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c index faaf944597ab..d501e436a7d9 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c @@ -1357,7 +1357,8 @@ static void process_deferred_bios(struct pool *pool) bio_list_init(&pool->deferred_flush_bios); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags); - if (bio_list_empty(&bios) && !need_commit_due_to_time(pool)) + if (bio_list_empty(&bios) && + !(dm_pool_changed_this_transaction(pool->pmd) && need_commit_due_to_time(pool))) return; if (commit(pool)) { -- cgit v1.2.3