dm thin: reduce number of metadata commits

Reduce the number of metadata commits by using
dm_thin_changed_this_transaction to check if metadata was changed on a
per thin device granularity.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
index bc9d08c0218b..98c50f9626d8 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
@@ -707,6 +707,12 @@ static void remap_to_origin(struct thin_c *tc, struct bio *bio)
         bio->bi_bdev = tc->origin_dev->bdev;
 }
 
+static int bio_triggers_commit(struct thin_c *tc, struct bio *bio)
+{
+        return (bio->bi_rw & (REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA)) &&
+                dm_thin_changed_this_transaction(tc->td);
+}
+
 static void issue(struct thin_c *tc, struct bio *bio)
 {
         struct pool *pool = tc->pool;
@@ -716,7 +722,7 @@ static void issue(struct thin_c *tc, struct bio *bio)
          * Batch together any FUA/FLUSH bios we find and then issue
          * a single commit for them in process_deferred_bios().
          */
-        if (bio->bi_rw & (REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA)) {
+        if (bio_triggers_commit(tc, bio)) {
                 spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
                 bio_list_add(&pool->deferred_flush_bios, bio);
                 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);