kernel/drivers/md/dm-cache-background-tracker.h, branch linux-6.9.y

dm: change "unsigned" to "unsigned int"

2023-02-14T19:23:06Z

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: add missing SPDX-License-Indentifiers

2023-02-14T19:23:06Z

'GPL-2.0-only' is used instead of 'GPL-2.0' because SPDX has deprecated its use. Suggested-by: John Wiele Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm cache: Add some documentation to dm-cache-background-tracker.h

2023-01-30T19:20:04Z

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm cache: significant rework to leverage dm-bio-prison-v2

2017-03-07T18:28:31Z

The cache policy interfaces have been updated to work well with the new bio-prison v2 interface's ability to queue work immediately (promotion, demotion, etc) -- overriding benefit being reduced latency on processing IO through the cache. Previously such work would be left for the DM cache core to queue on various lists and then process in batches later -- this caused a serious delay in latency for IO driven by the cache. The background tracker code was factored out so that all cache policies can make use of it. Also, the "cleaner" policy has been removed and is now a variant of the smq policy that simply disallows migrations. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer