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authorHans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com>2018-06-01 17:41:13 +0300
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2018-06-01 18:02:53 +0300
commitcc9c9a00b10eaf33abe1cece2c05ea34601af21b (patch)
treefb118d35b601bc76bb3281d2c26ed33eaeab0710 /drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h
parentb06be2873d916e58c00ecfa664c22a75fa721260 (diff)
downloadlinux-cc9c9a00b10eaf33abe1cece2c05ea34601af21b.tar.xz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h
index 725bc1bfa849..34cc1d64a9d4 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h
@@ -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