dm writecache: set a default MAX_WRITEBACK_JOBS
dm-writecache has the capability to limit the number of writeback jobs in progress. However, this feature was off by default. As such there were some out-of-memory crashes observed when lowering the low watermark while the cache is full. This commit enables writeback limit by default. It is set to 256MiB or 1/16 of total system memory, whichever is smaller. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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