dm writecache: write at least 4k when committing

SSDs perform badly with sub-4k writes (because they perfrorm
read-modify-write internally), so make sure writecache writes at least
4k when committing.

Fixes: 991bd8d ("dm writecache: commit just one block, not a full page")
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>

Author: Mikulas Patocka

drivers/md/dm-writecache.c

@@ -532,7 +532,11 @@ static void ssd_commit_superblock(struct dm_writecache *wc)
 
 	region.bdev = wc->ssd_dev->bdev;
 	region.sector = 0;
-	region.count = wc->block_size >> SECTOR_SHIFT;
+	region.count = max(4096U, wc->block_size) >> SECTOR_SHIFT;
+
+	if (unlikely(region.sector + region.count > wc->metadata_sectors))
+		region.count = wc->metadata_sectors - region.sector;
+
 	region.sector += wc->start_sector;
 
 	req.bi_op = REQ_OP_WRITE;