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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c
index 99036befb571..a5750534efed 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ err:
         return -1;
 }
 
-static void pblk_write_kick(struct pblk *pblk)
+void pblk_write_kick(struct pblk *pblk)
 {
         wake_up_process(pblk->writer_ts);
         mod_timer(&pblk->wtimer, jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(1000));