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-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-smq.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-smq.c b/drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-smq.c
index e0c40aec5e96..d13d9edf8dfe 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-smq.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-smq.c
@@ -1214,7 +1214,11 @@ static void queue_promotion(struct smq_policy *mq, dm_oblock_t oblock,
return;
if (allocator_empty(&mq->cache_alloc)) {
- if (!free_target_met(mq, false))
+ /*
+ * We always claim to be 'idle' to ensure some demotions happen
+ * with continuous loads.
+ */
+ if (!free_target_met(mq, true))
queue_demotion(mq);
return;
}