linux/drivers/md
NeilBrown 435b71be20 md: improve the is_mddev_idle test
During a 'resync' or similar activity, md checks if the devices in the
array are otherwise active and winds back resync activity when they are.
This test in done in is_mddev_idle, and it is somewhat fragile - it
sometimes thinks there is non-sync io when there isn't.

The test compares the total sectors of io (disk_stat_read) with the sectors
of resync io (disk->sync_io).  This has problems because total sectors gets
updated when a request completes, while resync io gets updated when the
request is submitted.  The time difference can cause large differenced
between the two which do not actually imply non-resync activity.  The test
currently allows for some fuzz (+/- 4096) but there are some cases when it
is not enough.

The test currently looks for any (non-fuzz) difference, either positive or
negative.  This clearly is not needed.  Any non-sync activity will cause
the total sectors to grow faster than the sync_io count (never slower) so
we only need to look for a positive differences.

If we do this then the amount of in-flight sync io will never cause the
appearance of non-sync IO.  Once enough non-sync IO to worry about starts
happening, resync will be slowed down and the measurements will thus be
more precise (as there is less in-flight) and control of resync will still
be suitably responsive.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-11 08:29:37 -07:00
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raid6test [PATCH] RAID6 Altivec fix 2005-09-17 11:49:58 -07:00
.gitignore gitignore: misc files 2006-01-01 22:21:50 +01:00
bitmap.c Remove do_sync_file_range() 2007-05-08 11:15:04 -07:00
dm-bio-list.h dm: bio list helpers 2007-05-09 12:30:47 -07:00
dm-bio-record.h
dm-crypt.c dm crypt: add null iv 2007-05-09 12:30:46 -07:00
dm-delay.c dm: delay target 2007-05-09 12:30:47 -07:00
dm-emc.c [PATCH] struct path: rename DM's struct path 2006-12-08 08:28:40 -08:00
dm-exception-store.c dm exception store: update dm io interface 2007-05-09 12:30:47 -07:00
dm-hw-handler.c BUG_ON() Conversion in md/dm-hw-handler.c 2006-03-24 18:36:27 +01:00
dm-hw-handler.h dm mpath: log device name 2007-05-09 12:30:46 -07:00
dm-io.c dm io: remove old interface 2007-05-09 12:30:47 -07:00
dm-io.h dm io: remove old interface 2007-05-09 12:30:47 -07:00
dm-ioctl.c [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 4 2007-02-12 09:48:45 -08:00
dm-linear.c [PATCH] dm: map and endio symbolic return codes 2006-12-08 08:29:09 -08:00
dm-log.c dm log: fix resume failed log device 2007-05-09 12:30:48 -07:00
dm-log.h [PATCH] dm: log: rename complete_resync_work 2006-12-08 08:29:09 -08:00
dm-mpath.c dm mpath: log device name 2007-05-09 12:30:46 -07:00
dm-mpath.h [PATCH] struct path: rename DM's struct path 2006-12-08 08:28:40 -08:00
dm-path-selector.c BUG_ON() Conversion in md/dm-path-selector.c 2006-03-26 18:21:58 +02:00
dm-path-selector.h [PATCH] struct path: rename DM's struct path 2006-12-08 08:28:40 -08:00
dm-raid1.c dm raid1: switch rh_in_sync to blocking in do_reads 2007-05-09 12:30:48 -07:00
dm-round-robin.c [PATCH] struct path: rename DM's struct path 2006-12-08 08:28:40 -08:00
dm-snap.c [PATCH] make drivers/md/dm-snap.c:ksnapd static 2006-12-08 08:29:09 -08:00
dm-snap.h [PATCH] dm snapshot: add workqueue 2006-10-03 08:04:14 -07:00
dm-stripe.c [PATCH] dm: map and endio symbolic return codes 2006-12-08 08:29:09 -08:00
dm-table.c dm: allow offline devices 2007-05-09 12:30:47 -07:00
dm-target.c [PATCH] dm: improve error message consistency 2006-06-26 09:58:36 -07:00
dm-zero.c [PATCH] dm: map and endio symbolic return codes 2006-12-08 08:29:09 -08:00
dm.c dm mpath: log device name 2007-05-09 12:30:46 -07:00
dm.h [PATCH] dm: suspend: add noflush pushback 2006-12-08 08:29:09 -08:00
faulty.c [PATCH] md: Don't assume that READ==0 and WRITE==1 - use the names explicitly 2006-12-13 09:05:48 -08:00
Kconfig dm: delay target 2007-05-09 12:30:47 -07:00
kcopyd.c dm kcopyd: update dm io interface 2007-05-09 12:30:47 -07:00
kcopyd.h
linear.c [PATCH] fix read past end of array in md/linear.c 2007-03-16 19:25:03 -07:00
Makefile dm: delay target 2007-05-09 12:30:47 -07:00
md.c md: improve the is_mddev_idle test 2007-05-11 08:29:37 -07:00
mktables.c
multipath.c [PATCH] md: fix up maintenance of ->degraded in multipath 2006-10-28 11:30:51 -07:00
raid0.c [PATCH] md: define backing_dev_info.congested_fn for raid0 and linear 2006-10-03 08:04:18 -07:00
raid1.c md: avoid a possibility that a read error can wrongly propagate through md/raid1 to a filesystem. 2007-05-10 09:26:53 -07:00
raid5.c Revert "md: improve partition detection in md array" 2007-05-09 18:51:36 -07:00
raid6.h [PATCH] RAID6 Altivec fix 2005-09-17 11:49:58 -07:00
raid6algos.c [PATCH] drivers/md/raid6algos.c: fix a NULL dereference 2006-06-23 07:43:08 -07:00
raid6altivec.uc [PATCH] RAID6 Altivec fix 2005-09-17 11:49:58 -07:00
raid6int.uc
raid6mmx.c [PATCH] md: RAID6: clean up CPUID and FPU enter/exit code 2007-03-01 14:53:36 -08:00
raid6recov.c
raid6sse1.c [PATCH] md: RAID6: clean up CPUID and FPU enter/exit code 2007-03-01 14:53:36 -08:00
raid6sse2.c [PATCH] md: RAID6: clean up CPUID and FPU enter/exit code 2007-03-01 14:53:36 -08:00
raid6x86.h [PATCH] md: RAID6: clean up CPUID and FPU enter/exit code 2007-03-01 14:53:36 -08:00
raid10.c [PATCH] md: fix raid10 recovery problem. 2007-03-01 14:53:36 -08:00
unroll.pl
xor.c