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dm cache: make smq background work limit configurable

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The maximum number of concurrent background work items (promotions,
demotions, writebacks) in the SMQ policy was hardcoded to 4096, with
a FIXME comment noting it should be made configurable.

This value was originally tuned down from 10240 to balance memory
overhead (~128 bytes per entry, ~512KB at 4096 entries) against I/O
parallelism. However, different workloads and cache sizes may benefit
from different limits:

- Write-heavy workloads may need more writeback concurrency
- Very large caches (10+ TB) may need more promotion slots
- Memory-constrained systems may want a lower limit

Make this configurable via the module parameter "smq_max_background_work"
(defaulting to 4096 to preserve existing behaviour). Clamp the value to
at least 1 to prevent setting 0, which would block all background work.
The parameter only affects newly created cache devices; existing caches
retain their value from creation time.

Signed-off-by: Cao Guanghui <caoguanghui@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
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Cao Guanghui 2026-06-01 13:49:07 +08:00 committed by Mikulas Patocka
parent f9f57971da
commit af8ce93329
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drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-smq.c
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@ -21,6 +21,16 @@
/*----------------------------------------------------------------*/
/*
* Maximum number of concurrent background work items (promotions,
* demotions, writebacks) that can be queued in the background tracker.
* Tuneable via the module parameter smq_max_background_work.
* Only affects newly created cache devices.
*/
static unsigned int smq_max_background_work = 4096;
module_param(smq_max_background_work, uint, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(smq_max_background_work, "Max concurrent background work items");
/*
* Safe division functions that return zero on divide by zero.
*/
@ -1816,7 +1826,7 @@ __smq_create(dm_cblock_t cache_size, sector_t origin_size, sector_t cache_block_
mq->next_hotspot_period = jiffies;
mq->next_cache_period = jiffies;
mq->bg_work = btracker_create(4096); /* FIXME: hard coded value */
mq->bg_work = btracker_create(max(1u, smq_max_background_work));
if (!mq->bg_work)
goto bad_btracker;