dm writecache: improve performance of large linear writes on SSDs
When dm-writecache is used with SSD as a cache device, it would submit a
separate bio for each written block. The I/Os would be merged by the disk
scheduler, but this merging degrades performance.
Improve dm-writecache performance by submitting larger bios - this is
possible as long as there is consecutive free space on the cache
device.
Benchmark (arm64 with 64k page size, using /dev/ram0 as a cache device):