> On 7 Jun 2018, at 18.15, Marcin Dziegielewski 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Some devices can expose mw_cunits equal to 0, it can cause the creation of 
> too small write buffer and cause performance to drop on write workloads.
> 
> Additionally, write buffer size must cover openchannel write data 
> requirements, such as WS_MIN and MW_CUNITS - it must be greater than or equal 
> to the larger one multipled by number of luns. However, for the performance 
> reason, we are using WS_OPT value to calculation instead of WS_MIN.
> 
> Because the place where buffer size is calculated was changed, this patch 
> also removes pgs_in_buffer filed in pblk structure.

Please keep 72 characters on the commit description.
scripts/checkpatch.pl should report this.

Maybe Matias can format it when picking it up.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcin Dziegielewski <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Igor Konopko <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c | 9 +++++----
> drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h      | 3 ---
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c
> index a27b28d..2f94832 100644
> --- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c
> +++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c
> @@ -179,11 +179,14 @@ static int pblk_rwb_init(struct pblk *pblk)
>       struct pblk_rb_entry *entries;
>       unsigned long nr_entries, buffer_size;
>       unsigned int power_size, power_seg_sz;
> +     int pgs_in_buffer;
> 
> -     if (write_buffer_size && (write_buffer_size > pblk->pgs_in_buffer))
> +     pgs_in_buffer = max(geo->mw_cunits, geo->ws_opt) * geo->all_luns;
> +
> +     if (write_buffer_size && (write_buffer_size > pgs_in_buffer))
>               buffer_size = write_buffer_size;
>       else
> -             buffer_size = pblk->pgs_in_buffer;
> +             buffer_size = pgs_in_buffer;
> 
>       nr_entries = pblk_rb_calculate_size(buffer_size);
> 
> @@ -366,8 +369,6 @@ static int pblk_core_init(struct pblk *pblk)
>       atomic64_set(&pblk->nr_flush, 0);
>       pblk->nr_flush_rst = 0;
> 
> -     pblk->pgs_in_buffer = geo->mw_cunits * geo->all_luns;
> -
>       pblk->min_write_pgs = geo->ws_opt * (geo->csecs / PAGE_SIZE);
>       max_write_ppas = pblk->min_write_pgs * geo->all_luns;
>       pblk->max_write_pgs = min_t(int, max_write_ppas, NVM_MAX_VLBA);
> diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h
> index 7fbdfdc..b62fc3e 100644
> --- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h
> +++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h
> @@ -608,9 +608,6 @@ struct pblk {
> 
>       int min_write_pgs; /* Minimum amount of pages required by controller */
>       int max_write_pgs; /* Maximum amount of pages supported by controller */
> -     int pgs_in_buffer; /* Number of pages that need to be held in buffer to
> -                         * guarantee successful reads.
> -                         */
> 
>       sector_t capacity; /* Device capacity when bad blocks are subtracted */
> 
> --
> 1.8.3.1

Otherwise the patch looks good.

Reviewed-by: Javier González <[email protected]>

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