WQ_RESCUER is now an internal flag and should only be used in the
workqueue implementation proper. Use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM instead.
This doesn't introduce any functional difference.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Commit e09b457b (block: simplify holder symlink handling) incorrectly
assumed that there is only one link at maximum. dm may use multiple
links and expects block layer to track reference count for each link,
which is different from and unrelated to the exclusive device holder
identified by @holder when the device is opened.
Remove the single holder assumption and automatic removal of the link
and revive the per-link reference count tracking. The code
essentially behaves the same as before commit e09b457b sans the
unnecessary kobject reference count dancing.
While at it, note that this facility should not be used by anyone else
than the current ones. Sysfs symlinks shouldn't be abused like this
and the whole thing doesn't belong in the block layer at all.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Cc: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm: (32 commits)
dm: raid456 basic support
dm: per target unplug callback support
dm: introduce target callbacks and congestion callback
dm mpath: delay activate_path retry on SCSI_DH_RETRY
dm: remove superfluous irq disablement in dm_request_fn
dm log: use PTR_ERR value instead of ENOMEM
dm snapshot: avoid storing private suspended state
dm snapshot: persistent make metadata_wq multithreaded
dm: use non reentrant workqueues if equivalent
dm: convert workqueues to alloc_ordered
dm stripe: switch from local workqueue to system_wq
dm: dont use flush_scheduled_work
dm snapshot: remove unused dm_snapshot queued_bios_work
dm ioctl: suppress needless warning messages
dm crypt: add loop aes iv generator
dm crypt: add multi key capability
dm crypt: add post iv call to iv generator
dm crypt: use io thread for reads only if mempool exhausted
dm crypt: scale to multiple cpus
dm crypt: simplify compatible table output
...
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
md: Fix removal of extra drives when converting RAID6 to RAID5
md: range check slot number when manually adding a spare.
md/raid5: handle manually-added spares in start_reshape.
md: fix sync_completed reporting for very large drives (>2TB)
md: allow suspend_lo and suspend_hi to decrease as well as increase.
md: Don't let implementation detail of curr_resync leak out through sysfs.
md: separate meta and data devs
md-new-param-to_sync_page_io
md-new-param-to-calc_dev_sboffset
md: Be more careful about clearing flags bit in ->recovery
md: md_stop_writes requires mddev_lock.
md/raid5: use sysfs_notify_dirent_safe to avoid NULL pointer
md: Ensure no IO request to get md device before it is properly initialised.
md: Fix single printks with multiple KERN_<level>s
md: fix regression resulting in delays in clearing bits in a bitmap
md: fix regression with re-adding devices to arrays with no metadata
When a RAID6 is converted to a RAID5, the extra drive should
be discarded. However it isn't due to a typo in a comparison.
This bug was introduced in commit e93f68a1fc in 2.6.35-rc4
and is suitable for any -stable since than.
As the extra drive is not removed, the 'degraded' counter is wrong and
so the RAID5 will not respond correctly to a subsequent failure.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When adding a spare to an active array, we should check the slot
number, but allow it to be larger than raid_disks if a reshape
is being prepared.
Apply the same test when adding a device to an
array-under-construction. It already had most of the test in place,
but not quite all.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
It is possible to manually add spares to specific slots before
starting a reshape.
raid5_start_reshape should recognised this possibility and include
it in the accounting.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
The values exported in the sync_completed file are unsigned long, which
overflows with very large drives, resulting in wrong values reported.
Since sync_completed uses sectors as unit, we'll start getting wrong
values with components larger than 2TB.
This patch simply replaces the use of unsigned long by unsigned long long.
Signed-off-by: Rémi Rérolle <rrerolle@lacie.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
The sysfs attributes 'suspend_lo' and 'suspend_hi' describe a region
to which read/writes are suspended so that the under lying data can be
manipulated without user-space noticing.
Currently the window they describe can only move forwards along the
device. However this is an unnecessary restriction which will cause
problems with planned developments.
So relax this restriction and allow these endpoints to move
arbitrarily.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
mddev->curr_resync has artificial values of '1' and '2' which are used
by the code which ensures only one resync is happening at a time on
any given device.
These values are internal and should never be exposed to user-space
(except when translated appropriately as in the 'pending' status in
/proc/mdstat).
Unfortunately they are as ->curr_resync is assigned to
->curr_resync_completed and that value is directly visible through
sysfs.
So change the assignments to ->curr_resync_completed to get the same
valued from elsewhere in a form that doesn't have the magic '1' or '2'
values.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Allow the metadata to be on a separate device from the
data.
This doesn't mean the data and metadata will by on separate
physical devices - it simply gives device-mapper and userspace
tools more flexibility.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Add new parameter to 'sync_page_io'.
The new parameter allows us to distinguish between metadata and data
operations. This becomes important later when we add the ability to
use separate devices for data and metadata.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
When we allow for separate devices for data and metadata
in a later patch, we will need to be able to calculate
the superblock offset based on more than the bdev.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Setting ->recovery to 0 is generally not a good idea as it could clear
bits that shouldn't be cleared. In particular, MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN
should only be cleared on explicit request from user-space.
So when we need to clear things, just clear the bits that need
clearing.
As there are a few different places which reap a resync process - and
some do an incomplte job - factor out the code for doing the from
md_check_recovery and call that function instead of open coding part
of it.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reported-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
As md_stop_writes manipulates the sync_thread and calls md_update_sb,
it need to be called with mddev_lock held.
In all internal cases it is, but the symbol is exported for dm-raid to
call and in that case the lock won't be help.
Do make an exported version which takes the lock, and an internal
version which does not.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
With the module parameter 'start_dirty_degraded' set,
raid5_spare_active() previously called sysfs_notify_dirent() with a NULL
argument (rdev->sysfs_state) when a rebuild finished.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
When an md device is in the process of coming on line it is possible
for an IO request (typically a partition table probe) to get through
before the array is fully initialised, which can cause unexpected
behaviour (e.g. a crash).
So explicitly record when the array is ready for IO and don't allow IO
through until then.
There is no possibility for a similar problem when the array is going
off-line as there must only be one 'open' at that time, and it is busy
off-lining the array and so cannot send IO requests. So no memory
barrier is needed in md_stop()
This has been a bug since commit 409c57f380 in 2.6.30 which
introduced md_make_request. Before then, each personality would
register its own make_request_fn when it was ready.
This is suitable for any stable kernel from 2.6.30.y onwards.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reported-by: "Hawrylewicz Czarnowski, Przemyslaw" <przemyslaw.hawrylewicz.czarnowski@intel.com>
commit 589a594be1 (2.6.37-rc4) fixed a problem were md_thread would
sometimes call the ->run function at a bad time.
If an error is detected during array start up after the md_thread has
been started, the md_thread is killed. This resulted in the ->run
function being called once. However the array may not be in a state
that it is safe to call ->run.
However the fix imposed meant that ->run was not called on a timeout.
This means that when an array goes idle, bitmap bits do not get
cleared promptly. While the array is busy the bits will still be
cleared when appropriate so this is not very serious. There is no
risk to data.
Change the test so that we only avoid calling ->run when the thread
is being stopped. This more explicitly addresses the problem situation.
This is suitable for 2.6.37-stable and any -stable kernel to which
589a594be1 was applied.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This patch is the skeleton for the DM target that will be
the bridge from DM to MD (initially RAID456 and later RAID1). It
provides a way to use device-mapper interfaces to the MD RAID456
drivers.
As with all device-mapper targets, the nominal public interfaces are the
constructor (CTR) tables and the status outputs (both STATUSTYPE_INFO
and STATUSTYPE_TABLE). The CTR table looks like the following:
1: <s> <l> raid \
2: <raid_type> <#raid_params> <raid_params> \
3: <#raid_devs> <meta_dev1> <dev1> .. <meta_devN> <devN>
Line 1 contains the standard first three arguments to any device-mapper
target - the start, length, and target type fields. The target type in
this case is "raid".
Line 2 contains the arguments that define the particular raid
type/personality/level, the required arguments for that raid type, and
any optional arguments. Possible raid types include: raid4, raid5_la,
raid5_ls, raid5_rs, raid6_zr, raid6_nr, and raid6_nc. (again, raid1 is
planned for the future.) The list of required and optional parameters
is the same for all the current raid types. The required parameters are
positional, while the optional parameters are given as key/value pairs.
The possible parameters are as follows:
<chunk_size> Chunk size in sectors.
[[no]sync] Force/Prevent RAID initialization
[rebuild <idx>] Rebuild the drive indicated by the index
[daemon_sleep <ms>] Time between bitmap daemon work to clear bits
[min_recovery_rate <kB/sec/disk>] Throttle RAID initialization
[max_recovery_rate <kB/sec/disk>] Throttle RAID initialization
[max_write_behind <value>] See '-write-behind=' (man mdadm)
[stripe_cache <sectors>] Stripe cache size for higher RAIDs
Line 3 contains the list of devices that compose the array in
metadata/data device pairs. If the metadata is stored separately, a '-'
is given for the metadata device position. If a drive has failed or is
missing at creation time, a '-' can be given for both the metadata and
data drives for a given position.
Examples:
# RAID4 - 4 data drives, 1 parity
# No metadata devices specified to hold superblock/bitmap info
# Chunk size of 1MiB
# (Lines separated for easy reading)
0 1960893648 raid \
raid4 1 2048 \
5 - 8:17 - 8:33 - 8:49 - 8:65 - 8:81
# RAID4 - 4 data drives, 1 parity (no metadata devices)
# Chunk size of 1MiB, force RAID initialization,
# min recovery rate at 20 kiB/sec/disk
0 1960893648 raid \
raid4 4 2048 min_recovery_rate 20 sync\
5 - 8:17 - 8:33 - 8:49 - 8:65 - 8:81
Performing a 'dmsetup table' should display the CTR table used to
construct the mapping (with possible reordering of optional
parameters).
Performing a 'dmsetup status' will yield information on the state and
health of the array. The output is as follows:
1: <s> <l> raid \
2: <raid_type> <#devices> <1 health char for each dev> <resync_ratio>
Line 1 is standard DM output. Line 2 is best shown by example:
0 1960893648 raid raid4 5 AAAAA 2/490221568
Here we can see the RAID type is raid4, there are 5 devices - all of
which are 'A'live, and the array is 2/490221568 complete with recovery.
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
DM currently implements congestion checking by checking on congestion
in each component device. For raid456 we need to also check if the
stripe cache is congested.
Add per-target congestion checker callback support.
Extending the target_callbacks structure with additional callback
functions allows for establishing multiple callbacks per-target (a
callback is also needed for unplug).
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch adds a user-configurable 'pg_init_delay_msecs' feature. Use
this feature to specify the number of milliseconds to delay before
retrying scsi_dh_activate, when SCSI_DH_RETRY is returned.
SCSI Device Handlers return SCSI_DH_IMM_RETRY if we could retry
activation immediately and SCSI_DH_RETRY in cases where it is better to
retry after some delay.
Currently we immediately retry scsi_dh_activate irrespective of
SCSI_DH_IMM_RETRY and SCSI_DH_RETRY.
The 'pg_init_delay_msecs' feature may be provided during table create or
load, e.g.:
dmsetup create --table "0 20971520 multipath 3 queue_if_no_path \
pg_init_delay_msecs 2500 ..." mpatha
The default for 'pg_init_delay_msecs' is 2000 milliseconds.
Maximum configurable delay is 60000 milliseconds. Specifying a
'pg_init_delay_msecs' of 0 will cause immediate retry.
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch changes spin_lock_irq() to spin_lock() in dm_request_fn().
This patch is just a clean-up and no functional change.
The spin_lock_irq() was leftover from the early request-based dm code,
where map_request() used to enable interrupts.
Since current map_request() never enables interrupts, we can change it
to spin_lock() to match the prior spin_unlock().
Auditing through the dm and block-layer code called from
map_request(), I confirmed all functions save/restore interrupt
status, so no function returning with interrupts enabled.
Also I haven't observed any problem on my test environment which
uses scsi and lpfc driver after heavy I/O testing with occasional
path down/up.
Added BUG_ON() to detect breakage in future.
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
It's nicer to return the PTR_ERR() value instead of just returning
-ENOMEM. In the current code the PTR_ERR() value is always equal to
-ENOMEM so this doesn't actually affect anything, but still...
In addition, dm_dirty_log_create() doesn't check for a specific -ENOMEM
return. So this change is safe relative to potential for a non -ENOMEM
return in the future.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Use dm_suspended() rather than having each snapshot target maintain a
private 'suspended' flag in struct dm_snapshot.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
metadata_wq serves on-stack work items from chunk_io(). Even if
multiple chunk_io() are simultaneously in progress, each is
independent and queued only once, so multithreaded workqueue can be
safely used.
Switch metadata_wq to multithread and flush the work item instead of
the workqueue in chunk_io().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
kmirrord_wq, kcopyd_work and md->wq are created per dm instance and
serve only a single work item from the dm instance, so non-reentrant
workqueues would provide the same ordering guarantees as ordered ones
while allowing CPU affinity and use of the workqueues for other
purposes. Switch them to non-reentrant workqueues.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Convert all create[_singlethread]_work() users to the new
alloc[_ordered]_workqueue(). This conversion is mechanical and
doesn't introduce any behavior change.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
kstriped only serves sc->kstriped_ws which runs dm_table_event().
This doesn't need to be executed from an ordered workqueue w/ rescuer.
Drop kstriped and use the system_wq instead. While at it, rename
kstriped_ws to trigger_event so that it's consistent with other dm
modules.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
flush_scheduled_work() is being deprecated. Flush the used work
directly instead. In all dm targets, the only work which uses
system_wq is ->trigger_event.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
dm_snapshot->queued_bios_work isn't used. Remove ->queued_bios[_work]
from dm_snapshot structure, the flush_queued_bios work function and
ksnapd workqueue.
The DM snapshot changes that were going to use the ksnapd workqueue were
either superseded (fix for origin write races) or never completed
(deallocation of invalid snapshot's memory via workqueue).
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
The device-mapper should not send warning messages to syslog
if a device is not found. This can be done by userspace
according to the returned dm-ioctl error code.
So move these messages to debug level and use rate limiting
to not flood syslog.
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch adds a compatible implementation of the block
chaining mode used by the Loop-AES block device encryption
system (http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/) designed
by Jari Ruusu.
It operates on full 512 byte sectors and uses CBC
with an IV derived from the sector number, the data and
optionally extra IV seed.
This means that after CBC decryption the first block of sector
must be tweaked according to decrypted data.
Loop-AES can use three encryption schemes:
version 1: is plain aes-cbc mode (already compatible)
version 2: uses 64 multikey scheme with own IV generator
version 3: the same as version 2 with additional IV seed
(it uses 65 keys, last key is used as IV seed)
The IV generator is here named lmk (Loop-AES multikey)
and for the cipher specification looks like: aes:64-cbc-lmk
Version 2 and 3 is recognised according to length
of provided multi-key string (which is just hexa encoded
"raw key" used in original Loop-AES ioctl).
Configuration of the device and decoding key string will
be done in userspace (cryptsetup).
(Loop-AES stores keys in gpg encrypted file, raw keys are
output of simple hashing of lines in this file).
Based on an implementation by Max Vozeler:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cryptoapi/3752/
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
CC: Max Vozeler <max@hinterhof.net>
This patch adds generic multikey handling to be used
in following patch for Loop-AES mode compatibility.
This patch extends mapping table to optional keycount and
implements generic multi-key capability.
With more keys defined the <key> string is divided into
several <keycount> sections and these are used for tfms.
The tfm is used according to sector offset
(sector 0->tfm[0], sector 1->tfm[1], sector N->tfm[N modulo keycount])
(only power of two values supported for keycount here).
Because of tfms per-cpu allocation, this mode can be take
a lot of memory on large smp systems.
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Max Vozeler <max@hinterhof.net>
IV (initialisation vector) can in principle depend not only
on sector but also on plaintext data (or other attributes).
Change IV generator interface to work directly with dmreq
structure to allow such dependence in generator.
Also add post() function which is called after the crypto
operation.
This allows tricky modification of decrypted data or IV
internals.
In asynchronous mode the post() can be called after
ctx->sector count was increased so it is needed
to add iv_sector copy directly to dmreq structure.
(N.B. dmreq always include only one sector in scatterlists)
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
If there is enough memory, code can directly submit bio
instead queing this operation in separate thread.
Try to alloc bio clone with GFP_NOWAIT and only if it
fails use separate queue (map function cannot block here).
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Currently dm-crypt does all the encryption work for a single dm-crypt
mapping in a single workqueue. This does not scale well when multiple
CPUs are submitting IO at a high rate. The single CPU running the single
thread cannot keep up with the encryption and encrypted IO performance
tanks.
This patch changes the crypto workqueue to be per CPU. This means
that as long as the IO submitter (or the interrupt target CPUs
for reads) runs on different CPUs the encryption work will be also
parallel.
To avoid a bottleneck on the IO worker I also changed those to be
per-CPU threads.
There is still some shared data, so I suspect some bouncing
cache lines. But I haven't done a detailed study on that yet.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Rename cc->cipher_mode to cc->cipher_string and store the whole of the cipher
information so it can easily be printed when processing the DM_DEV_STATUS ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch adds a 'version' field to the 'dm_ulog_request'
structure.
The 'version' field is taken from a portion of the unused
'padding' field in the 'dm_ulog_request' structure. This
was done to avoid changing the size of the structure and
possibly disrupting backwards compatibility.
The version number will help notify user-space daemons
when a change has been made to the kernel/userspace
log API.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Allow the device-mapper log's 'mark' and 'clear' requests to be
grouped and processed in a batch. This can significantly reduce the
amount of traffic going between the kernel and userspace (where the
processing daemon resides).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Split the 'flush_list', which contained a mix of both 'mark' and 'clear'
requests, into two distinct lists ('mark_list' and 'clear_list').
The device mapper log implementations (used by various DM targets) are
allowed to cache 'mark' and 'clear' requests until a 'flush' is
received. Until now, these cached requests were kept in the same list.
They will now be put into distinct lists to facilitate group processing
of these requests (in the next patch).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Make kcopyd merge more I/O requests by using device unplugging.
Without this patch, each I/O request is dispatched separately to the device.
If the device supports tagged queuing, there are many small requests sent
to the device. To improve performance, this patch will batch as many requests
as possible, allowing the queue to merge consecutive requests, and send them
to the device at once.
In my tests (15k SCSI disk), this patch improves sequential write throughput:
Sequential write throughput (chunksize of 4k, 32k, 512k)
unpatched: 15.2, 18.5, 17.5 MB/s
patched: 14.4, 22.6, 23.0 MB/s
In most common uses (snapshot or two-way mirror), kcopyd is only used for
two devices, one for reading and the other for writing, thus this optimization
is implemented only for two devices. The optimization may be extended to n-way
mirrors with some code complexity increase.
We keep track of two block devices to unplug (one for read and the
other for write) and unplug them when exiting "do_work" thread. If
there are more devices used (in theory it could happen, in practice it
is rare), we unplug immediately.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
When constructing a mirror log, it is possible for the initial request
to fail for other reasons besides -ESRCH. These must be handled too.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Simplify key size verification (hexadecimal string) and
set key size early in constructor.
(Patch required by later changes.)
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch replaces dm_mutex with _minor_lock in dm_blk_close()
and then removes it.
During the BKL conversion, commit 6e9624b8ca
(block: push down BKL into .open and .release) pushed lock_kernel()
down into dm_blk_open/close calls.
Commit 2a48fc0ab2
(block: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex) converted it to a
local mutex, but _minor_lock is sufficient.
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Enable discard support in the DM mirror target.
Also change an existing use of 'bvec' to 'addr' in the union.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Allow the uuid of a mapped device to be set after device creation.
Previously the uuid (which is optional) could only be set by
DM_DEV_CREATE. If no uuid was supplied it could not be set later.
Sometimes it's necessary to create the device before the uuid is known,
and in such cases the uuid must be filled in after the creation.
This patch extends DM_DEV_RENAME to accept a uuid accompanied by
a new flag DM_UUID_FLAG. This can only be done once and if no
uuid was previously supplied. It cannot be used to change an
existing uuid.
DM_VERSION_MINOR is also bumped to 19 to indicate this interface
extension is available.
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Remove the REQ_SYNC flag to improve write throughput when writing
to the origin with a snapshot on the same device (using the CFQ I/O
scheduler).
Sequential write throughput (chunksize of 4k, 32k, 512k)
unpatched: 8.5, 8.6, 9.3 MB/s
patched: 15.2, 18.5, 17.5 MB/s
Snapshot exception reallocations are triggered by writes that are
usually async, so mark the associated dm_io_request as async as well.
This helps when using the CFQ I/O scheduler because it has separate
queues for sync and async I/O. Async is optimized for throughput; sync
for latency. With this change we're consciously favoring throughput over
latency.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Revert commit 224cb3e981
dm: Call blk_abort_queue on failed paths
Multipath began to use blk_abort_queue() to allow for
lower latency path deactivation. This was found to
cause list corruption:
the cmd gets blk_abort_queued/timedout run on it and the scsi eh
somehow is able to complete and run scsi_queue_insert while
scsi_request_fn is still trying to process the request.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2010-November/msg00085.html
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
