We want to avoid zero discarded dev page, because it's useless for discard.
But if we don't zero it, another read/write hit such page in the cache and will
get inconsistent data.
To avoid zero the page, we don't set R5_UPTODATE flag after construction is
done. In this way, discard write request is still issued and finished, but read
will not hit the page. If the stripe gets accessed soon, we need reread the
stripe, but since the chance is low, the reread isn't a big deal.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Discard for raid4/5/6 has limitation. If discard request size is
small, we do discard for one disk, but we need calculate parity and
write parity disk. To correctly calculate parity, zero_after_discard
must be guaranteed. Even it's true, we need do discard for one disk
but write another disks, which makes the parity disks wear out
fast. This doesn't make sense. So an efficient discard for raid4/5/6
should discard all data disks and parity disks, which requires the
write pattern to be (A, A+chunk_size, A+chunk_size*2...). If A's size
is smaller than chunk_size, such pattern is almost impossible in
practice. So in this patch, I only handle the case that A's size
equals to chunk_size. That is discard request should be aligned to
stripe size and its size is multiple of stripe size.
Since we can only handle request with specific alignment and size (or
part of the request fitting stripes), we can't guarantee
zero_after_discard even zero_after_discard is true in low level
drives.
The block layer doesn't send down correctly aligned requests even
correct discard alignment is set, so I must filter out.
For raid4/5/6 parity calculation, if data is 0, parity is 0. So if
zero_after_discard is true for all disks, data is consistent after
discard. Otherwise, data might be lost. Let's consider a scenario:
discard a stripe, write data to one disk and write parity disk. The
stripe could be still inconsistent till then depending on using data
from other data disks or parity disks to calculate new parity. If the
disk is broken, we can't restore it. So in this patch, we only enable
discard support if all disks have zero_after_discard.
If discard fails in one disk, we face the similar inconsistent issue
above. The patch will make discard follow the same path as normal
write request. If discard fails, a resync will be scheduled to make
the data consistent. This isn't good to have extra writes, but data
consistency is important.
If a subsequent read/write request hits raid5 cache of a discarded
stripe, the discarded dev page should have zero filled, so the data is
consistent. This patch will always zero dev page for discarded request
stripe. This isn't optimal because discard request doesn't need such
payload. Next patch will avoid it.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When we get a read error, we arrange for raid1d to handle it.
Currently we release the reference on the device. This can result
in
conf->mirrors[read_disk].rdev
being NULL in fix_read_error, if the device happens to get removed
before the read error is handled.
So instead keep the reference until the read error has been fully
handled.
Reported-by: hank <pyu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This patch replaces list_for_each_continue_rcu() with
list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu() to save a few lines
of code and allow removing list_for_each_continue_rcu().
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
There are two table arguments that can be given to a DM RAID target
that control whether the array is forced to (re)synchronize or skip
initialization: "sync" and "nosync". When "sync" is given, we set
mddev->recovery_cp to 0 in order to cause the device to resynchronize.
This is insufficient if there is a bitmap in use, because the array
will simply look at the bitmap and see that there is no recovery
necessary.
The fix is to skip over the loading of the superblocks when "sync" is
given, causing new superblocks to be written that will force the array
to go through initialization (i.e. synchronization).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
DM RAID: Fix comparison of index and quantity for "rebuild" parameter
The "rebuild" parameter takes an index argument that starts counting from
zero. The conditional used to validate the index was using '>' rather than
'>=', leaving the door open for an index value that would be 1 too large.
Reported-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
DM RAID: Add code to validate replacement slots for RAID10 arrays
RAID10 can handle 'copies - 1' failures for each mirror group. This code
ensures the user has provided a valid array - one whose devices specified for
rebuild do not exceed the amount of redundancy available.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
DM RAID: Move chunk of code to it's own function
The code that checks whether device replacements/rebuilds are possible given
a specific RAID type is moved to it's own function. It will further expand
when the code to check RAID10 is added. A separate function makes it easier
to read.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
MD RAID10: Fix a couple potential kernel panics if RAID10 is used by dm-raid
When device-mapper uses the RAID10 personality through dm-raid.c, there is no
'gendisk' structure in mddev and some sysfs information is also not populated.
This patch avoids touching those non-existent structures.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@rehdat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Some ioctls don't need to take the mutex and doing so can cause
a delay as it is held during super-block update.
So move those ioctls out of the mutex and rely on rcu locking
to ensure we don't access stale data.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Change the thread parameter, so the thread can carry extra info. Next patch
will use it.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
queuing writes to the md thread means that all requests go through the
one processor which may not be able to keep up with very high request
rates.
So use the plugging infrastructure to submit all requests on unplug.
If a 'schedule' is needed, we fall back on the old approach of handing
the requests to the thread for it to handle.
This is nearly identical to a recent patch which provided similar
functionality to RAID1.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This makes md raid 10 support TRIM.
If one disk supports discard and another not, or one has
discard_zero_data and another not, there could be inconsistent between
data from such disks. But this should not matter, discarded data is
useless. This will add extra copy in rebuild though.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This makes md raid 1 support TRIM.
If one disk supports discard and another not, or one has discard_zero_data and
another not, there could be inconsistent between data from such disks. But this
should not matter, discarded data is useless. This will add extra copy in rebuild
though.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
According to the comment in linear_stop function
rcu_dereference in linear_start and linear_stop functions
occurs under reconfig_mutex. The patch represents this
agreement in code and prevents lockdep complaint.
Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org)
Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <yefremov.denis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
The WRITE SAME command supported on some SCSI devices allows the same
block to be efficiently replicated throughout a block range. Only a
single logical block is transferred from the host and the storage device
writes the same data to all blocks described by the I/O.
This patch implements support for WRITE SAME in the block layer. The
blkdev_issue_write_same() function can be used by filesystems and block
drivers to replicate a buffer across a block range. This can be used to
efficiently initialize software RAID devices, etc.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Previously, there was bio_clone() but it only allocated from the fs bio
set; as a result various users were open coding it and using
__bio_clone().
This changes bio_clone() to become bio_clone_bioset(), and then we add
bio_clone() and bio_clone_kmalloc() as wrappers around it, making use of
the functionality the last patch adedd.
This will also help in a later patch changing how bio cloning works.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
CC: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
CC: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
CC: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Previously, dm_rq_clone_bio_info needed to be freed by the bio's
destructor to avoid a memory leak in the blk_rq_prep_clone() error path.
This gets rid of a memory allocation and means we can kill
dm_rq_bio_destructor.
The _rq_bio_info_cache kmem cache is unused now and needs to be deleted,
but due to the way io_pool is used and overloaded this looks not quite
trivial so I'm leaving it for a later patch.
v6: Fix comment on struct dm_rq_clone_bio_info, per Tejun
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Now that bios keep track of where they were allocated from,
bio_integrity_alloc_bioset() becomes redundant.
Remove bio_integrity_alloc_bioset() and drop bio_set argument from the
related functions and make them use bio->bi_pool.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
With the old code, when you allocate a bio from a bio pool you have to
implement your own destructor that knows how to find the bio pool the
bio was originally allocated from.
This adds a new field to struct bio (bi_pool) and changes
bio_alloc_bioset() to use it. This makes various bio destructors
unnecessary, so they're then deleted.
v6: Explain the temporary if statement in bio_put
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
CC: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
CC: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
CC: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
A 'struct r10bio' has an array of per-copy information at the end.
This array is declared with size [0] and r10bio_pool_alloc allocates
enough extra space to store the per-copy information depending on the
number of copies needed.
So declaring a 'struct r10bio on the stack isn't going to work. It
won't allocate enough space, and memory corruption will ensue.
So in the two places where this is done, declare a sufficiently large
structure and use that instead.
The two call-sites of this bug were introduced in 3.4 and 3.5
so this is suitable for both those kernels. The patch will have to
be modified for 3.4 as it only has one bug.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Ivan Vasilyev <ivan.vasilyev@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ivan Vasilyev <ivan.vasilyev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
commit 27a7b260f7
md: Fix handling for devices from 2TB to 4TB in 0.90 metadata.
changed 0.90 metadata handling to truncated size to 4TB as that is
all that 0.90 can record.
However for RAID0 and Linear, 0.90 doesn't need to record the size, so
this truncation is not needed and causes working arrays to become too small.
So avoid the truncation for RAID0 and Linear
This bug was introduced in 3.1 and is suitable for any stable kernels
from then onwards.
As the offending commit was tagged for 'stable', any stable kernel
that it was applied to should also get this patch. That includes
at least 2.6.32, 2.6.33 and 3.0. (Thanks to Ben Hutchings for
providing that list).
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
This contains a few patches that depend on
plugging changes in the block layer so needs to wait
for those.
It also contains a Kconfig fix for the new RAID10 support
in dm-raid.
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Merge tag 'md-3.6' of git://neil.brown.name/md
Pull additional md update from NeilBrown:
"This contains a few patches that depend on plugging changes in the
block layer so needed to wait for those.
It also contains a Kconfig fix for the new RAID10 support in dm-raid."
* tag 'md-3.6' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
md/dm-raid: DM_RAID should select MD_RAID10
md/raid1: submit IO from originating thread instead of md thread.
raid5: raid5d handle stripe in batch way
raid5: make_request use batch stripe release
Now that DM_RAID supports raid10, it needs to select that code
to ensure it is included.
Cc: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
queuing writes to the md thread means that all requests go through the
one processor which may not be able to keep up with very high request
rates.
So use the plugging infrastructure to submit all requests on unplug.
If a 'schedule' is needed, we fall back on the old approach of handing
the requests to the thread for it to handle.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Let raid5d handle stripe in batch way to reduce conf->device_lock locking.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
make_request() does stripe release for every stripe and the stripe usually has
count 1, which makes previous release_stripe() optimization not work. In my
test, this release_stripe() becomes the heaviest pleace to take
conf->device_lock after previous patches applied.
Below patch makes stripe release batch. All the stripes will be released in
unplug. The STRIPE_ON_UNPLUG_LIST bit is to protect concurrent access stripe
lru.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Pull block driver changes from Jens Axboe:
- Making the plugging support for drivers a bit more sane from Neil.
This supersedes the plugging change from Shaohua as well.
- The usual round of drbd updates.
- Using a tail add instead of a head add in the request completion for
ndb, making us find the most completed request more quickly.
- A few floppy changes, getting rid of a duplicated flag and also
running the floppy init async (since it takes forever in boot terms)
from Andi.
* 'for-3.6/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
floppy: remove duplicated flag FD_RAW_NEED_DISK
blk: pass from_schedule to non-request unplug functions.
block: stack unplug
blk: centralize non-request unplug handling.
md: remove plug_cnt feature of plugging.
block/nbd: micro-optimization in nbd request completion
drbd: announce FLUSH/FUA capability to upper layers
drbd: fix max_bio_size to be unsigned
drbd: flush drbd work queue before invalidate/invalidate remote
drbd: fix potential access after free
drbd: call local-io-error handler early
drbd: do not reset rs_pending_cnt too early
drbd: reset congestion information before reporting it in /proc/drbd
drbd: report congestion if we are waiting for some userland callback
drbd: differentiate between normal and forced detach
drbd: cleanup, remove two unused global flags
floppy: Run floppy initialization asynchronous
Pull md updates from NeilBrown.
* 'for-next' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
DM RAID: Add support for MD RAID10
md/RAID1: Add missing case for attempting to repair known bad blocks.
md/raid5: For odirect-write performance, do not set STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE.
md/raid1: don't abort a resync on the first badblock.
md: remove duplicated test on ->openers when calling do_md_stop()
raid5: Add R5_ReadNoMerge flag which prevent bio from merging at block layer
md/raid1: prevent merging too large request
md/raid1: read balance chooses idlest disk for SSD
md/raid1: make sequential read detection per disk based
MD RAID10: Export md_raid10_congested
MD: Move macros from raid1*.h to raid1*.c
MD RAID1: rename mirror_info structure
MD RAID10: rename mirror_info structure
MD RAID10: Fix compiler warning.
raid5: add a per-stripe lock
raid5: remove unnecessary bitmap write optimization
raid5: lockless access raid5 overrided bi_phys_segments
raid5: reduce chance release_stripe() taking device_lock
This will allow md/raid to know why the unplug was called,
and will be able to act according - if !from_schedule it
is safe to perform tasks which could themselves schedule.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Both md and umem has similar code for getting notified on an
blk_finish_plug event.
Centralize this code in block/ and allow each driver to
provide its distinctive difference.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This seemed like a good idea at the time, but after further thought I
cannot see it making a difference other than very occasionally and
testing to try to exercise the case it is most likely to help did not
show any performance difference by removing it.
So remove the counting of active plugs and allow 'pending writes' to
be activated at any time, not just when no plugs are active.
This is only relevant when there is a write-intent bitmap, and the
updating of the bitmap will likely introduce enough delay that
the single-threading of bitmap updates will be enough to collect large
numbers of updates together.
Removing this will make it easier to centralise the unplug code, and
will clear the other for other unplug enhancements which have a
measurable effect.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
When doing resync or repair, attempt to correct bad blocks, according
to WriteErrorSeen policy
Signed-off-by: Alex Lyakas <alex.bolshoy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Merge Andrew's first set of patches:
"Non-MM patches:
- lots of misc bits
- tree-wide have_clk() cleanups
- quite a lot of printk tweaks. I draw your attention to "printk:
convert the format for KERN_<LEVEL> to a 2 byte pattern" which
looks a bit scary. But afaict it's solid.
- backlight updates
- lib/ feature work (notably the addition and use of memweight())
- checkpatch updates
- rtc updates
- nilfs updates
- fatfs updates (partial, still waiting for acks)
- kdump, proc, fork, IPC, sysctl, taskstats, pps, etc
- new fault-injection feature work"
* Merge emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (128 commits)
drivers/misc/lkdtm.c: fix missing allocation failure check
lib/scatterlist: do not re-write gfp_flags in __sg_alloc_table()
fault-injection: add tool to run command with failslab or fail_page_alloc
fault-injection: add selftests for cpu and memory hotplug
powerpc: pSeries reconfig notifier error injection module
memory: memory notifier error injection module
PM: PM notifier error injection module
cpu: rewrite cpu-notifier-error-inject module
fault-injection: notifier error injection
c/r: fcntl: add F_GETOWNER_UIDS option
resource: make sure requested range is included in the root range
include/linux/aio.h: cpp->C conversions
fs: cachefiles: add support for large files in filesystem caching
pps: return PTR_ERR on error in device_create
taskstats: check nla_reserve() return
sysctl: suppress kmemleak messages
ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION
ipc: compat: use signed size_t types for msgsnd and msgrcv
ipc: allow compat IPC version field parsing if !ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
ipc: add COMPAT_SHMLBA support
...
Use memweight() to count the total number of bits set in memory area.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
'sync' writes set both REQ_SYNC and REQ_NOIDLE.
O_DIRECT writes set REQ_SYNC but not REQ_NOIDLE.
We currently assume that a REQ_SYNC request will not be followed by
more requests and so set STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE to expedite the
request.
This is appropriate for sync requests, but not for O_DIRECT requests.
So make the setting of STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE conditional on REQ_NOIDLE
rather than REQ_SYNC. This is consistent with the documented meaning
of REQ_NOIDLE:
__REQ_NOIDLE, /* don't anticipate more IO after this one */
Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If a resync of a RAID1 array with 2 devices finds a known bad block
one device it will neither read from, or write to, that device for
this block offset.
So there will be one read_target (The other device) and zero write
targets.
This condition causes md/raid1 to abort the resync assuming that it
has finished - without known bad blocks this would be true.
When there are no write targets because of the presence of bad blocks
we should only skip over the area covered by the bad block.
RAID10 already gets this right, raid1 doesn't. Or didn't.
As this can cause a 'sync' to abort early and appear to have succeeded
it could lead to some data corruption, so it suitable for -stable.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Alexander Lyakas <alex.bolshoy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
do_md_stop tests mddev->openers while holding ->open_mutex,
and fails if this count is too high.
So callers do not need to check mddev->openers and doing so isn't
very meaningful as they don't hold ->open_mutex so the number could
change.
So remove the unnecessary tests on mddev->openers.
These are not called often enough for there to be any gain in
an early test on ->open_mutex to avoid the need for a slightly more
costly mutex_lock call.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Because bios will merge at block-layer,so bios-error may caused by other
bio which be merged into to the same request.
Using this flag,it will find exactly error-sector and not do redundant
operation like re-write and re-read.
V0->V1:Using REQ_FLUSH instead REQ_NOMERGE avoid bio merging at block
layer.
Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
For SSD, if request size exceeds specific value (optimal io size), request size
isn't important for bandwidth. In such condition, if making request size bigger
will cause some disks idle, the total throughput will actually drop. A good
example is doing a readahead in a two-disk raid1 setup.
So when should we split big requests? We absolutly don't want to split big
request to very small requests. Even in SSD, big request transfer is more
efficient. This patch only considers request with size above optimal io size.
If all disks are busy, is it worth doing a split? Say optimal io size is 16k,
two requests 32k and two disks. We can let each disk run one 32k request, or
split the requests to 4 16k requests and each disk runs two. It's hard to say
which case is better, depending on hardware.
So only consider case where there are idle disks. For readahead, split is
always better in this case. And in my test, below patch can improve > 30%
thoughput. Hmm, not 100%, because disk isn't 100% busy.
Such case can happen not just in readahead, for example, in directio. But I
suppose directio usually will have bigger IO depth and make all disks busy, so
I ignored it.
Note: if the raid uses any hard disk, we don't prevent merging. That will make
performace worse.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
SSD hasn't spindle, distance between requests means nothing. And the original
distance based algorithm sometimes can cause severe performance issue for SSD
raid.
Considering two thread groups, one accesses file A, the other access file B.
The first group will access one disk and the second will access the other disk,
because requests are near from one group and far between groups. In this case,
read balance might keep one disk very busy but the other relative idle. For
SSD, we should try best to distribute requests to as many disks as possible.
There isn't spindle move penality anyway.
With below patch, I can see more than 50% throughput improvement sometimes
depending on workloads.
The only exception is small requests can be merged to a big request which
typically can drive higher throughput for SSD too. Such small requests are
sequential reads. Unlike hard disk, sequential read which can't be merged (for
example direct IO, or read without readahead) can be ignored for SSD. Again
there is no spindle move penality. readahead dispatches small requests and such
requests can be merged.
Last patch can help detect sequential read well, at least if concurrent read
number isn't greater than raid disk number. In that case, distance based
algorithm doesn't work well too.
V2: For hard disk and SSD mixed raid, doesn't use distance based algorithm for
random IO too. This makes the algorithm generic for raid with SSD.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Currently the sequential read detection is global wide. It's natural to make it
per disk based, which can improve the detection for concurrent multiple
sequential reads. And next patch will make SSD read balance not use distance
based algorithm, where this change help detect truly sequential read for SSD.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
md/raid10: Export is_congested test.
In similar fashion to commits
11d8a6e3711ed7242e59
we export the RAID10 congestion checking function so that dm-raid.c can
make use of it and make use of the personality. The 'queue' and 'gendisk'
structures will not be available to the MD code when device-mapper sets
up the device, so we conditionalize access to these fields also.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
MD RAID1/RAID10: Move some macros from .h file to .c file
There are three macros (IO_BLOCKED,IO_MADE_GOOD,BIO_SPECIAL) which are defined
in both raid1.h and raid10.h. They are only used in there respective .c files.
However, if we wish to make RAID10 accessible to the device-mapper RAID
target (dm-raid.c), then we need to move these macros into the .c files where
they are used so that they do not conflict with each other.
The macros from the two files are identical and could be moved into md.h, but
I chose to leave the duplication and have them remain in the personality
files.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
MD RAID1: Rename the structure 'mirror_info' to 'raid1_info'
The same structure name ('mirror_info') is used by raid10. Each of these
structures are defined in there respective header files. If dm-raid is
to support both RAID1 and RAID10, the header files will be included and
the structure names must not collide. While only one of these structure
names needs to change, this patch adds consistency to the naming of the
structure.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
