linux-stable.git/drivers/md/dm.c, branch linux-3.1.y

dm table: set flush capability based on underlying devices

2011-08-02T11:32:08+00:00

DM has always advertised both REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA flush capabilities
regardless of whether or not a given DM device's underlying devices
also advertised a need for them.

Block's flush-merge changes from 2.6.39 have proven to be more costly
for DM devices.  Performance regressions have been reported even when
DM's underlying devices do not advertise that they have a write cache.

Fix the performance regressions by configuring a DM device's flushing
capabilities based on those of the underlying devices' capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: ignore merge_bvec for snapshots when safe

2011-08-02T11:32:04+00:00

Add a new flag DMF_MERGE_IS_OPTIONAL to struct mapped_device to indicate
whether the device can accept bios larger than the size its merge
function returns.  When set, use this to send large bios to snapshots
which can split them if necessary.  Snapshot I/O may be significantly
fragmented and this approach seems to improve peformance.

Before the patch, dm_set_device_limits restricted bio size to page size
if the underlying device had a merge function and the target didn't
provide a merge function.  After the patch, dm_set_device_limits
restricts bio size to page size if the underlying device has a merge
function, doesn't have DMF_MERGE_IS_OPTIONAL flag and the target doesn't
provide a merge function.

The snapshot target can't provide a merge function because when the merge
function is called, it is impossible to determine where the bio will be
remapped.  Previously this led us to impose a 4k limit, which we can
now remove if the snapshot store is located on a device without a merge
function.  Together with another patch for optimizing full chunk writes,
it improves performance from 29MB/s to 40MB/s when writing to the
filesystem on snapshot store.

If the snapshot store is placed on a non-dm device with a merge function
(such as md-raid), device mapper still limits all bios to page size.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm table: fix discard support

2011-08-02T11:32:01+00:00

Remove 'discards_supported' from the dm_table structure.  The same
information can be easily discovered from the table's target(s) in
dm_table_supports_discards().

Before this fix dm_table_supports_discards() would skip checking the
individual targets' 'discards_supported' flag if any one target in the
table didn't set num_discard_requests > 0.  Now the per-target
'discards_supported' flag is effective at insuring the final DM device
advertises discard support.  But, to be clear, targets that don't
support discards (!num_discard_requests) will not receive discard
requests.

Also DMWARN if a target sets 'discards_supported' override but forgets
to set 'num_discard_requests'.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: fix idr leak on module removal

2011-08-02T11:32:01+00:00

Destroy _minor_idr when unloading the core dm module.  (Found by kmemleak.)

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures

2011-03-22T07:35:35+00:00

After the stack plugging introduction, these are called lockless.
Ensure that the counters are updated atomically.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool

2011-03-17T10:11:05+00:00

MD and DM create a new bio_set for every metadevice. Each bio_set has an
integrity mempool attached regardless of whether the metadevice is
capable of passing integrity metadata. This is a waste of memory.

Instead we defer the allocation decision to MD and DM since we know at
metadevice creation time whether integrity passthrough is needed or not.

Automatic integrity mempool allocation can then be removed from
bioset_create() and we make an explicit integrity allocation for the
fs_bio_set.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac 
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove per-queue plugging

2011-03-10T07:52:07+00:00

Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

dm: remove superfluous irq disablement in dm_request_fn

2011-01-13T20:00:00+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: use non reentrant workqueues if equivalent

2011-01-13T19:59:58+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: convert workqueues to alloc_ordered

2011-01-13T19:59:57+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon