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2017-05-03Merge tag 'for-4.12/dm-changes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer: - A major update for DM cache that reduces the latency for deciding whether blocks should migrate to/from the cache. The bio-prison-v2 interface supports this improvement by enabling direct dispatch of work to workqueues rather than having to delay the actual work dispatch to the DM cache core. So the dm-cache policies are much more nimble by being able to drive IO as they see fit. One immediate benefit from the improved latency is a cache that should be much more adaptive to changing workloads. - Add a new DM integrity target that emulates a block device that has additional per-sector tags that can be used for storing integrity information. - Add a new authenticated encryption feature to the DM crypt target that builds on the capabilities provided by the DM integrity target. - Add MD interface for switching the raid4/5/6 journal mode and update the DM raid target to use it to enable aid4/5/6 journal write-back support. - Switch the DM verity target over to using the asynchronous hash crypto API (this helps work better with architectures that have access to off-CPU algorithm providers, which should reduce CPU utilization). - Various request-based DM and DM multipath fixes and improvements from Bart and Christoph. - A DM thinp target fix for a bio structure leak that occurs for each discard IFF discard passdown is enabled. - A fix for a possible deadlock in DM bufio and a fix to re-check the new buffer allocation watermark in the face of competing admin changes to the 'max_cache_size_bytes' tunable. - A couple DM core cleanups. * tag 'for-4.12/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (50 commits) dm bufio: check new buffer allocation watermark every 30 seconds dm bufio: avoid a possible ABBA deadlock dm mpath: make it easier to detect unintended I/O request flushes dm mpath: cleanup QUEUE_IF_NO_PATH bit manipulation by introducing assign_bit() dm mpath: micro-optimize the hot path relative to MPATHF_QUEUE_IF_NO_PATH dm: introduce enum dm_queue_mode to cleanup related code dm mpath: verify __pg_init_all_paths locking assumptions at runtime dm: verify suspend_locking assumptions at runtime dm block manager: remove an unused argument from dm_block_manager_create() dm rq: check blk_mq_register_dev() return value in dm_mq_init_request_queue() dm mpath: delay requeuing while path initialization is in progress dm mpath: avoid that path removal can trigger an infinite loop dm mpath: split and rename activate_path() to prepare for its expanded use dm ioctl: prevent stack leak in dm ioctl call dm integrity: use previously calculated log2 of sectors_per_block dm integrity: use hex2bin instead of open-coded variant dm crypt: replace custom implementation of hex2bin() dm crypt: remove obsolete references to per-CPU state dm verity: switch to using asynchronous hash crypto API dm crypt: use WQ_HIGHPRI for the IO and crypt workqueues ...
2017-04-11md/raid5: make chunk_aligned_read() split bios more cleanly.NeilBrown
chunk_aligned_read() currently uses fs_bio_set - which is meant for filesystems to use - and loops if multiple splits are needed, which is not best practice. As this is only used for READ requests, not writes, it is unlikely to cause a problem. However it is best to be consistent in how we split bios, and to follow the pattern used in raid1/raid10. So create a private bioset, bio_split, and use it to perform a single split, submitting the remainder to generic_make_request() for later processing. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2017-03-27md: add raid4/5/6 journal mode switching APIHeinz Mauelshagen
Commit 2ded370373a4 ("md/r5cache: State machine for raid5-cache write back mode") added support for "write-back" caching on the raid journal device. In order to allow the dm-raid target to switch between the available "write-through" and "write-back" modes, provide a new r5c_journal_mode_set() API. Use the new API in existing r5c_journal_mode_store() Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com> Acked-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2017-03-22md/raid5: remove over-loading of ->bi_phys_segments.NeilBrown
When a read request, which bypassed the cache, fails, we need to retry it through the cache. This involves attaching it to a sequence of stripe_heads, and it may not be possible to get all the stripe_heads we need at once. We do what we can, and record how far we got in ->bi_phys_segments so we can pick up again later. There is only ever one bio which may have a non-zero offset stored in ->bi_phys_segments, the one that is either active in the single thread which calls retry_aligned_read(), or is in conf->retry_read_aligned waiting for retry_aligned_read() to be called again. So we only need to store one offset value. This can be in a local variable passed between remove_bio_from_retry() and retry_aligned_read(), or in the r5conf structure next to the ->retry_read_aligned pointer. Storing it there allows the last usage of ->bi_phys_segments to be removed from md/raid5.c. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2017-03-22md/raid5: use bio_inc_remaining() instead of repurposing bi_phys_segments as ↵NeilBrown
a counter md/raid5 needs to keep track of how many stripe_heads are processing a bio so that it can delay calling bio_endio() until all stripe_heads have completed. It currently uses 16 bits of ->bi_phys_segments for this purpose. 16 bits is only enough for 256M requests, and it is possible for a single bio to be larger than this, which causes problems. Also, the bio struct contains a larger counter, __bi_remaining, which has a purpose very similar to the purpose of our counter. So stop using ->bi_phys_segments, and instead use __bi_remaining. This means we don't need to initialize the counter, as our caller initializes it to '1'. It also means we can call bio_endio() directly as it tests this counter internally. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2017-03-22md/raid5: call bio_endio() directly rather than queueing for later.NeilBrown
We currently gather bios that need to be returned into a bio_list and call bio_endio() on them all together. The original reason for this was to avoid making the calls while holding a spinlock. Locking has changed a lot since then, and that reason is no longer valid. So discard return_io() and various return_bi lists, and just call bio_endio() directly as needed. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2017-03-22md/raid5: simplfy delaying of writes while metadata is updated.NeilBrown
If a device fails during a write, we must ensure the failure is recorded in the metadata before the completion of the write is acknowleged. Commit c3cce6cda162 ("md/raid5: ensure device failure recorded before write request returns.") added code for this, but it was unnecessarily complicated. We already had similar functionality for handling updates to the bad-block-list, thanks to Commit de393cdea66c ("md: make it easier to wait for bad blocks to be acknowledged.") So revert most of the former commit, and instead avoid collecting completed writes if MD_CHANGE_PENDING is set. raid5d() will then flush the metadata and retry the stripe_head. As this change can leave a stripe_head ready for handling immediately after handle_active_stripes() returns, we change raid5_do_work() to pause when MD_CHANGE_PENDING is set, so that it doesn't spin. We check MD_CHANGE_PENDING *after* analyse_stripe() as it could be set asynchronously. After analyse_stripe(), we have collected stable data about the state of devices, which will be used to make decisions. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2017-03-16raid5-ppl: Partial Parity Log write logging implementationArtur Paszkiewicz
Implement the calculation of partial parity for a stripe and PPL write logging functionality. The description of PPL is added to the documentation. More details can be found in the comments in raid5-ppl.c. Attach a page for holding the partial parity data to stripe_head. Allocate it only if mddev has the MD_HAS_PPL flag set. Partial parity is the xor of not modified data chunks of a stripe and is calculated as follows: - reconstruct-write case: xor data from all not updated disks in a stripe - read-modify-write case: xor old data and parity from all updated disks in a stripe Implement it using the async_tx API and integrate into raid_run_ops(). It must be called when we still have access to old data, so do it when STRIPE_OP_BIODRAIN is set, but before ops_run_prexor5(). The result is stored into sh->ppl_page. Partial parity is not meaningful for full stripe write and is not stored in the log or used for recovery, so don't attempt to calculate it when stripe has STRIPE_FULL_WRITE. Put the PPL metadata structures to md_p.h because userspace tools (mdadm) will also need to read/write PPL. Warn about using PPL with enabled disk volatile write-back cache for now. It can be removed once disk cache flushing before writing PPL is implemented. Signed-off-by: Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2017-03-16raid5: separate header for log functionsArtur Paszkiewicz
Move raid5-cache declarations from raid5.h to raid5-log.h, add inline wrappers for functions which will be shared with ppl and use them in raid5 core instead of direct calls to raid5-cache. Remove unused parameter from r5c_cache_data(), move two duplicated pr_debug() calls to r5l_init_log(). Signed-off-by: Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2017-03-16md/raid5: sort biosShaohua Li
Previous patch (raid5: only dispatch IO from raid5d for harddisk raid) defers IO dispatching. The goal is to create better IO pattern. At that time, we don't sort the deffered IO and hope the block layer can do IO merge and sort. Now the raid5-cache writeback could create large amount of bios. And if we enable muti-thread for stripe handling, we can't control when to dispatch IO to raid disks. In a lot of time, we are dispatching IO which block layer can't do merge effectively. This patch moves further for the IO dispatching defer. We accumulate bios, but we don't dispatch all the bios after a threshold is met. This 'dispatch partial portion of bios' stragety allows bios coming in a large time window are sent to disks together. At the dispatching time, there is large chance the block layer can merge the bios. To make this more effective, we dispatch IO in ascending order. This increases request merge chance and reduces disk seek. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2017-03-16md/raid5: prioritize stripes for writebackShaohua Li
In raid5-cache writeback mode, we have two types of stripes to handle. - stripes which aren't cached yet - stripes which are cached and flushing out to raid disks Upperlayer is more sensistive to latency of the first type of stripes generally. But we only one handle list for all these stripes, where the two types of stripes are mixed together. When reclaim flushes a lot of stripes, the first type of stripes could be noticeably delayed. On the other hand, if the log space is tight, we'd like to handle the second type of stripes faster and free log space. This patch destinguishes the two types stripes. They are added into different handle list. When we try to get a stripe to handl, we prefer the first type of stripes unless log space is tight. This should have no impact for !writeback case. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2017-02-13md/raid5-cache: exclude reclaiming stripes in reclaim checkShaohua Li
stripes which are being reclaimed are still accounted into cached stripes. The reclaim takes time. r5c_do_reclaim isn't aware of the stripes and does unnecessary stripe reclaim. In practice, I saw one stripe is reclaimed one time. This will cause bad IO pattern. Fixing this by excluding the reclaing stripes in the check. Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2017-02-13md/r5cache: enable chunk_aligned_read with write back cacheSong Liu
Chunk aligned read significantly reduces CPU usage of raid456. However, it is not safe to fully bypass the write back cache. This patch enables chunk aligned read with write back cache. For chunk aligned read, we track stripes in write back cache at a bigger granularity, "big_stripe". Each chunk may contain more than one stripe (for example, a 256kB chunk contains 64 4kB-page, so this chunk contain 64 stripes). For chunk_aligned_read, these stripes are grouped into one big_stripe, so we only need one lookup for the whole chunk. For each big_stripe, struct big_stripe_info tracks how many stripes of this big_stripe are in the write back cache. We count how many stripes of this big_stripe are in the write back cache. These counters are tracked in a radix tree (big_stripe_tree). r5c_tree_index() is used to calculate keys for the radix tree. chunk_aligned_read() calls r5c_big_stripe_cached() to look up big_stripe of each chunk in the tree. If this big_stripe is in the tree, chunk_aligned_read() aborts. This look up is protected by rcu_read_lock(). It is necessary to remember whether a stripe is counted in big_stripe_tree. Instead of adding new flag, we reuses existing flags: STRIPE_R5C_PARTIAL_STRIPE and STRIPE_R5C_FULL_STRIPE. If either of these two flags are set, the stripe is counted in big_stripe_tree. This requires moving set_bit(STRIPE_R5C_PARTIAL_STRIPE) to r5c_try_caching_write(); and moving clear_bit of STRIPE_R5C_PARTIAL_STRIPE and STRIPE_R5C_FULL_STRIPE to r5c_finish_stripe_write_out(). Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2017-02-13raid5: only dispatch IO from raid5d for harddisk raidShaohua Li
We made raid5 stripe handling multi-thread before. It works well for SSD. But for harddisk, the multi-threading creates more disk seek, so not always improve performance. For several hard disks based raid5, multi-threading is required as raid5d becames a bottleneck especially for sequential write. To overcome the disk seek issue, we only dispatch IO from raid5d if the array is harddisk based. Other threads can still handle stripes, but can't dispatch IO. Idealy, we should control IO dispatching order according to IO position interrnally. Right now we still depend on block layer, which isn't very efficient sometimes though. My setup has 9 harddisks, each disk can do around 180M/s sequential write. So in theory, the raid5 can do 180 * 8 = 1440M/s sequential write. The test machine uses an ATOM CPU. I measure sequential write with large iodepth bandwidth to raid array: without patch: ~600M/s without patch and group_thread_cnt=4: 750M/s with patch and group_thread_cnt=4: 950M/s with patch, group_thread_cnt=4, skip_copy=1: 1150M/s We are pretty close to the maximum bandwidth in the large iodepth iodepth case. The performance gap of small iodepth sequential write between software raid and theory value is still very big though, because we don't have an efficient pipeline. Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2017-01-24md/r5cache: disable write back for degraded arraySong Liu
write-back cache in degraded mode introduces corner cases to the array. Although we try to cover all these corner cases, it is safer to just disable write-back cache when the array is in degraded mode. In this patch, we disable writeback cache for degraded mode: 1. On device failure, if the array enters degraded mode, raid5_error() will submit async job r5c_disable_writeback_async to disable writeback; 2. In r5c_journal_mode_store(), it is invalid to enable writeback in degraded mode; 3. In r5c_try_caching_write(), stripes with s->failed>0 will be handled in write-through mode. Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2017-01-24md/r5cache: read data into orig_page for prexor of cached dataSong Liu
With write back cache, we use orig_page to do prexor. This patch makes sure we read data into orig_page for it. Flag R5_OrigPageUPTDODATE is added to show whether orig_page has the latest data from raid disk. We introduce a helper function uptodate_for_rmw() to simplify the a couple conditions in handle_stripe_dirtying(). Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2016-11-27md/r5cache: handle alloc_page failureSong Liu
RMW of r5c write back cache uses an extra page to store old data for prexor. handle_stripe_dirtying() allocates this page by calling alloc_page(). However, alloc_page() may fail. To handle alloc_page() failures, this patch adds an extra page to disk_info. When alloc_page fails, handle_stripe() trys to use these pages. When these pages are used by other stripe (R5C_EXTRA_PAGE_IN_USE), the stripe is added to delayed_list. Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2016-11-18md/r5cache: handle FLUSH and FUASong Liu
With raid5 cache, we committing data from journal device. When there is flush request, we need to flush journal device's cache. This was not needed in raid5 journal, because we will flush the journal before committing data to raid disks. This is similar to FUA, except that we also need flush journal for FUA. Otherwise, corruptions in earlier meta data will stop recovery from reaching FUA data. slightly changed the code by Shaohua Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2016-11-18md/r5cache: sysfs entry journal_modeSong Liu
With write cache, journal_mode is the knob to switch between write-back and write-through. Below is an example: root@virt-test:~/# cat /sys/block/md0/md/journal_mode [write-through] write-back root@virt-test:~/# echo write-back > /sys/block/md0/md/journal_mode root@virt-test:~/# cat /sys/block/md0/md/journal_mode write-through [write-back] Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2016-11-18md/r5cache: write-out phase and reclaim supportSong Liu
There are two limited resources, stripe cache and journal disk space. For better performance, we priotize reclaim of full stripe writes. To free up more journal space, we free earliest data on the journal. In current implementation, reclaim happens when: 1. Periodically (every R5C_RECLAIM_WAKEUP_INTERVAL, 30 seconds) reclaim if there is no reclaim in the past 5 seconds. 2. when there are R5C_FULL_STRIPE_FLUSH_BATCH (256) cached full stripes, or cached stripes is enough for a full stripe (chunk size / 4k) (r5c_check_cached_full_stripe) 3. when there is pressure on stripe cache (r5c_check_stripe_cache_usage) 4. when there is pressure on journal space (r5l_write_stripe, r5c_cache_data) r5c_do_reclaim() contains new logic of reclaim. For stripe cache: When stripe cache pressure is high (more than 3/4 stripes are cached, or there is empty inactive lists), flush all full stripe. If fewer than R5C_RECLAIM_STRIPE_GROUP (NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS * 2) full stripes are flushed, flush some paritial stripes. When stripe cache pressure is moderate (1/2 to 3/4 of stripes are cached), flush all full stripes. For log space: To avoid deadlock due to log space, we need to reserve enough space to flush cached data. The size of required log space depends on total number of cached stripes (stripe_in_journal_count). In current implementation, the writing-out phase automatically include pending data writes with parity writes (similar to write through case). Therefore, we need up to (conf->raid_disks + 1) pages for each cached stripe (1 page for meta data, raid_disks pages for all data and parity). r5c_log_required_to_flush_cache() calculates log space required to flush cache. In the following, we refer to the space calculated by r5c_log_required_to_flush_cache() as reclaim_required_space. Two flags are added to r5conf->cache_state: R5C_LOG_TIGHT and R5C_LOG_CRITICAL. R5C_LOG_TIGHT is set when free space on the log device is less than 3x of reclaim_required_space. R5C_LOG_CRITICAL is set when free space on the log device is less than 2x of reclaim_required_space. r5c_cache keeps all data in cache (not fully committed to RAID) in a list (stripe_in_journal_list). These stripes are in the order of their first appearance on the journal. So the log tail (last_checkpoint) should point to the journal_start of the first item in the list. When R5C_LOG_TIGHT is set, r5l_reclaim_thread starts flushing out stripes at the head of stripe_in_journal. When R5C_LOG_CRITICAL is set, the state machine only writes data that are already in the log device (in stripe_in_journal_list). This patch includes a fix to improve performance by Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>. Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2016-11-18md/r5cache: caching phase of r5cacheSong Liu
As described in previous patch, write back cache operates in two phases: caching and writing-out. The caching phase works as: 1. write data to journal (r5c_handle_stripe_dirtying, r5c_cache_data) 2. call bio_endio (r5c_handle_data_cached, r5c_return_dev_pending_writes). Then the writing-out phase is as: 1. Mark the stripe as write-out (r5c_make_stripe_write_out) 2. Calcualte parity (reconstruct or RMW) 3. Write parity (and maybe some other data) to journal device 4. Write data and parity to RAID disks This patch implements caching phase. The cache is integrated with stripe cache of raid456. It leverages code of r5l_log to write data to journal device. Writing-out phase of the cache is implemented in the next patch. With r5cache, write operation does not wait for parity calculation and write out, so the write latency is lower (1 write to journal device vs. read and then write to raid disks). Also, r5cache will reduce RAID overhead (multipile IO due to read-modify-write of parity) and provide more opportunities of full stripe writes. This patch adds 2 flags to stripe_head.state: - STRIPE_R5C_PARTIAL_STRIPE, - STRIPE_R5C_FULL_STRIPE, Instead of inactive_list, stripes with cached data are tracked in r5conf->r5c_full_stripe_list and r5conf->r5c_partial_stripe_list. STRIPE_R5C_FULL_STRIPE and STRIPE_R5C_PARTIAL_STRIPE are flags for stripes in these lists. Note: stripes in r5c_full/partial_stripe_list are not considered as "active". For RMW, the code allocates an extra page for each data block being updated. This is stored in r5dev->orig_page and the old data is read into it. Then the prexor calculation subtracts ->orig_page from the parity block, and the reconstruct calculation adds the ->page data back into the parity block. r5cache naturally excludes SkipCopy. When the array has write back cache, async_copy_data() will not skip copy. There are some known limitations of the cache implementation: 1. Write cache only covers full page writes (R5_OVERWRITE). Writes of smaller granularity are write through. 2. Only one log io (sh->log_io) for each stripe at anytime. Later writes for the same stripe have to wait. This can be improved by moving log_io to r5dev. 3. With writeback cache, read path must enter state machine, which is a significant bottleneck for some workloads. 4. There is no per stripe checkpoint (with r5l_payload_flush) in the log, so recovery code has to replay more than necessary data (sometimes all the log from last_checkpoint). This reduces availability of the array. This patch includes a fix proposed by ZhengYuan Liu <liuzhengyuan@kylinos.cn> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2016-11-18md/r5cache: State machine for raid5-cache write back modeSong Liu
This patch adds state machine for raid5-cache. With log device, the raid456 array could operate in two different modes (r5c_journal_mode): - write-back (R5C_MODE_WRITE_BACK) - write-through (R5C_MODE_WRITE_THROUGH) Existing code of raid5-cache only has write-through mode. For write-back cache, it is necessary to extend the state machine. With write-back cache, every stripe could operate in two different phases: - caching - writing-out In caching phase, the stripe handles writes as: - write to journal - return IO In writing-out phase, the stripe behaviors as a stripe in write through mode R5C_MODE_WRITE_THROUGH. STRIPE_R5C_CACHING is added to sh->state to differentiate caching and writing-out phase. Please note: this is a "no-op" patch for raid5-cache write-through mode. The following detailed explanation is copied from the raid5-cache.c: /* * raid5 cache state machine * * With rhe RAID cache, each stripe works in two phases: * - caching phase * - writing-out phase * * These two phases are controlled by bit STRIPE_R5C_CACHING: * if STRIPE_R5C_CACHING == 0, the stripe is in writing-out phase * if STRIPE_R5C_CACHING == 1, the stripe is in caching phase * * When there is no journal, or the journal is in write-through mode, * the stripe is always in writing-out phase. * * For write-back journal, the stripe is sent to caching phase on write * (r5c_handle_stripe_dirtying). r5c_make_stripe_write_out() kicks off * the write-out phase by clearing STRIPE_R5C_CACHING. * * Stripes in caching phase do not write the raid disks. Instead, all * writes are committed from the log device. Therefore, a stripe in * caching phase handles writes as: * - write to log device * - return IO * * Stripes in writing-out phase handle writes as: * - calculate parity * - write pending data and parity to journal * - write data and parity to raid disks * - return IO for pending writes */ Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2016-11-18md/r5cache: move some code to raid5.hSong Liu
Move some define and inline functions to raid5.h, so they can be used in raid5-cache.c Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2016-09-06md/raid5: Convert to hotplug state machineSebastian Andrzej Siewior
Install the callbacks via the state machine and let the core invoke the callbacks on the already online CPUs. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.com> Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: rt@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160818125731.27256-10-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-02-26RAID5: revert e9e4c377e2f563 to fix a livelockShaohua Li
Revert commit e9e4c377e2f563(md/raid5: per hash value and exclusive wait_for_stripe) The problem is raid5_get_active_stripe waits on conf->wait_for_stripe[hash]. Assume hash is 0. My test release stripes in this order: - release all stripes with hash 0 - raid5_get_active_stripe still sleeps since active_stripes > max_nr_stripes * 3 / 4 - release all stripes with hash other than 0. active_stripes becomes 0 - raid5_get_active_stripe still sleeps, since nobody wakes up wait_for_stripe[0] The system live locks. The problem is active_stripes isn't a per-hash count. Revert the patch makes the live lock go away. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.2+) Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2016-02-26RAID5: check_reshape() shouldn't call mddev_suspendShaohua Li
check_reshape() is called from raid5d thread. raid5d thread shouldn't call mddev_suspend(), because mddev_suspend() waits for all IO finish but IO is handled in raid5d thread, we could easily deadlock here. This issue is introduced by 738a273 ("md/raid5: fix allocation of 'scribble' array.") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.1+) Reported-and-tested-by: Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2015-11-01raid5-cache: IO error handlingShaohua Li
There are 3 places the raid5-cache dispatches IO. The discard IO error doesn't matter, so we ignore it. The superblock write IO error can be handled in MD core. The remaining are log write and flush. When the IO error happens, we mark log disk faulty and fail all write IO. Read IO is still allowed to run. Userspace will get a notification too and corresponding daemon can choose setting raid array readonly for example. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
2015-11-01raid5-cache: move reclaim stop to quiesceShaohua Li
Move reclaim stop to quiesce handling, where is safer for this stuff. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
2015-11-01raid5-cache: optimize FLUSH IO with log enabledShaohua Li
With log enabled, bio is written to raid disks after the bio is settled down in log disk. The recovery guarantees we can recovery the bio data from log disk, so we we skip FLUSH IO. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
2015-10-24raid5: log reclaim supportShaohua Li
This is the reclaim support for raid5 log. A stripe write will have following steps: 1. reconstruct the stripe, read data/calculate parity. ops_run_io prepares to write data/parity to raid disks 2. hijack ops_run_io. stripe data/parity is appending to log disk 3. flush log disk cache 4. ops_run_io run again and do normal operation. stripe data/parity is written in raid array disks. raid core can return io to upper layer. 5. flush cache of all raid array disks 6. update super block 7. log disk space used by the stripe can be reused In practice, several stripes consist of an io_unit and we will batch several io_unit in different steps, but the whole process doesn't change. It's possible io return just after data/parity hit log disk, but then read IO will need read from log disk. For simplicity, IO return happens at step 4, where read IO can directly read from raid disks. Currently reclaim run if there is specific reclaimable space (1/4 disk size or 10G) or we are out of space. Reclaim is just to free log disk spaces, it doesn't impact data consistency. The size based force reclaim is to make sure log isn't too big, so recovery doesn't scan log too much. Recovery make sure raid disks and log disk have the same data of a stripe. If crash happens before 4, recovery might/might not recovery stripe's data/parity depending on if data/parity and its checksum matches. In either case, this doesn't change the syntax of an IO write. After step 3, stripe is guaranteed recoverable, because stripe's data/parity is persistent in log disk. In some cases, log disk content and raid disks content of a stripe are the same, but recovery will still copy log disk content to raid disks, this doesn't impact data consistency. space reuse happens after superblock update and cache flush. There is one situation we want to avoid. A broken meta in the middle of a log causes recovery can't find meta at the head of log. If operations require meta at the head persistent in log, we must make sure meta before it persistent in log too. The case is stripe data/parity is in log and we start write stripe to raid disks (before step 4). stripe data/parity must be persistent in log before we do the write to raid disks. The solution is we restrictly maintain io_unit list order. In this case, we only write stripes of an io_unit to raid disks till the io_unit is the first one whose data/parity is in log. The io_unit list order is important for other cases too. For example, some io_unit are reclaimable and others not. They can be mixed in the list, we shouldn't reuse space of an unreclaimable io_unit. Includes fixes to problems which were... Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
2015-10-24raid5: add basic stripe logShaohua Li
This introduces a simple log for raid5. Data/parity writing to raid array first writes to the log, then write to raid array disks. If crash happens, we can recovery data from the log. This can speed up raid resync and fix write hole issue. The log structure is pretty simple. Data/meta data is stored in block unit, which is 4k generally. It has only one type of meta data block. The meta data block can track 3 types of data, stripe data, stripe parity and flush block. MD superblock will point to the last valid meta data block. Each meta data block has checksum/seq number, so recovery can scan the log correctly. We store a checksum of stripe data/parity to the metadata block, so meta data and stripe data/parity can be written to log disk together. otherwise, meta data write must wait till stripe data/parity is finished. For stripe data, meta data block will record stripe data sector and size. Currently the size is always 4k. This meta data record can be made simpler if we just fix write hole (eg, we can record data of a stripe's different disks together), but this format can be extended to support caching in the future, which must record data address/size. For stripe parity, meta data block will record stripe sector. It's size should be 4k (for raid5) or 8k (for raid6). We always store p parity first. This format should work for caching too. flush block indicates a stripe is in raid array disks. Fixing write hole doesn't need this type of meta data, it's for caching extension. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
2015-10-24raid5: add a new state for stripe log handlingShaohua Li
When a stripe finishes construction, we write the stripe to raid in ops_run_io normally. With log, we do a bunch of other operations before the stripe is written to raid. Mainly write the stripe to log disk, flush disk cache and so on. The operations are still driven by raid5d and run in the stripe state machine. We introduce a new state for such stripe (trapped into log). The stripe is in this state from the time it first enters ops_run_io (finish construction) to the time it is written to raid. Since we know the state is only for log, we bypass other check/operation in handle_stripe. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
2015-10-24raid5: export some functionsShaohua Li
Next several patches use some raid5 functions, rename them with raid5 prefix and export out. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
2015-08-31md/raid5: ensure device failure recorded before write request returns.NeilBrown
When a write to one of the devices of a RAID5/6 fails, the failure is recorded in the metadata of the other devices so that after a restart the data on the failed drive wont be trusted even if that drive seems to be working again (maybe a cable was unplugged). Similarly when we record a bad-block in response to a write failure, we must not let the write complete until the bad-block update is safe. Currently there is no interlock between the write request completing and the metadata update. So it is possible that the write will complete, the app will confirm success in some way, and then the machine will crash before the metadata update completes. This is an extremely small hole for a racy to fit in, but it is theoretically possible and so should be closed. So: - set MD_CHANGE_PENDING when requesting a metadata update for a failed device, so we can know with certainty when it completes - queue requests that completed when MD_CHANGE_PENDING is set to only be processed after the metadata update completes - call raid_end_bio_io() on bios in that queue when the time comes. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
2015-08-31md/raid5: use bio_list for the list of bios to return.NeilBrown
This will make it easier to splice two lists together which will be needed in future patch. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
2015-07-22md/raid5: avoid races when changing cache size.NeilBrown
Cache size can grow or shrink due to various pressures at any time. So when we resize the cache as part of a 'grow' operation (i.e. change the size to allow more devices) we need to blocks that automatic growing/shrinking. So introduce a mutex. auto grow/shrink uses mutex_trylock() and just doesn't bother if there is a blockage. Resizing the whole cache holds the mutex to ensure that the correct number of new stripes is allocated. This bug can result in some stripes not being freed when an array is stopped. This leads to the kmem_cache not being freed and a subsequent array can try to use the same kmem_cache and get confused. Fixes: edbe83ab4c27 ("md/raid5: allow the stripe_cache to grow and shrink.") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (4.1 - please delay until 2 weeks after release of 4.2) Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
2015-06-17md/raid5: per hash value and exclusive wait_for_stripeYuanhan Liu
I noticed heavy spin lock contention at get_active_stripe() with fsmark multiple thread write workloads. Here is how this hot contention comes from. We have limited stripes, and it's a multiple thread write workload. Hence, those stripes will be taken soon, which puts later processes to sleep for waiting free stripes. When enough stripes(>= 1/4 total stripes) are released, all process are woken, trying to get the lock. But there is one only being able to get this lock for each hash lock, making other processes spinning out there for acquiring the lock. Thus, it's effectiveless to wakeup all processes and let them battle for a lock that permits one to access only each time. Instead, we could make it be a exclusive wake up: wake up one process only. That avoids the heavy spin lock contention naturally. To do the exclusive wake up, we've to split wait_for_stripe into multiple wait queues, to make it per hash value, just like the hash lock. Here are some test results I have got with this patch applied(all test run 3 times): `fsmark.files_per_sec' ===================== next-20150317 this patch ------------------------- ------------------------- metric_value ±stddev metric_value ±stddev change testbox/benchmark/testcase-params ------------------------- ------------------------- -------- ------------------------------ 25.600 ±0.0 92.700 ±2.5 262.1% ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-btrfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose 25.600 ±0.0 77.800 ±0.6 203.9% ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-btrfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose 32.000 ±0.0 93.800 ±1.7 193.1% ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-ext4-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose 32.000 ±0.0 81.233 ±1.7 153.9% ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-ext4-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose 48.800 ±14.5 99.667 ±2.0 104.2% ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-xfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose 6.400 ±0.0 12.800 ±0.0 100.0% ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-3HDD-RAID5-btrfs-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose 63.133 ±8.2 82.800 ±0.7 31.2% ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-xfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose 245.067 ±0.7 306.567 ±7.9 25.1% ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-f2fs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose 17.533 ±0.3 21.000 ±0.8 19.8% ivb44/fsmark/1x-1t-3HDD-RAID5-xfs-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose 188.167 ±1.9 215.033 ±3.1 14.3% ivb44/fsmark/1x-1t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-btrfs-4M-30G-NoSync 254.500 ±1.8 290.733 ±2.4 14.2% ivb44/fsmark/1x-1t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-btrfs-4M-30G-NoSync `time.system_time' ===================== next-20150317 this patch ------------------------- ------------------------- metric_value ±stddev metric_value ±stddev change testbox/benchmark/testcase-params ------------------------- ------------------------- -------- ------------------------------ 7235.603 ±1.2 185.163 ±1.9 -97.4% ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-btrfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose 7666.883 ±2.9 202.750 ±1.0 -97.4% ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-btrfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose 14567.893 ±0.7 421.230 ±0.4 -97.1% ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-3HDD-RAID5-btrfs-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose 3697.667 ±14.0 148.190 ±1.7 -96.0% ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-xfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose 5572.867 ±3.8 310.717 ±1.4 -94.4% ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-ext4-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose 5565.050 ±0.5 313.277 ±1.5 -94.4% ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-ext4-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose 2420.707 ±17.1 171.043 ±2.7 -92.9% ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-xfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose 3743.300 ±4.6 379.827 ±3.5 -89.9% ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-3HDD-RAID5-ext4-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose 3308.687 ±6.3 363.050 ±2.0 -89.0% ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-3HDD-RAID5-xfs-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose Where, 1x: where 'x' means iterations or loop, corresponding to the 'L' option of fsmark 1t, 64t: where 't' means thread 4M: means the single file size, corresponding to the '-s' option of fsmark 40G, 30G, 120G: means the total test size 4BRD_12G: BRD is the ramdisk, where '4' means 4 ramdisk, and where '12G' means the size of one ramdisk. So, it would be 48G in total. And we made a raid on those ramdisk As you can see, though there are no much performance gain for hard disk workload, the system time is dropped heavily, up to 97%. And as expected, the performance increased a lot, up to 260%, for fast device(ram disk). v2: use bits instead of array to note down wait queue need to wake up. Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-06-17md/raid5: split wait_for_stripe and introduce wait_for_quiescentYuanhan Liu
I noticed heavy spin lock contention at get_active_stripe(), introduced at being wake up stage, where a bunch of processes try to re-hold the spin lock again. After giving some thoughts on this issue, I found the lock could be relieved(and even avoided) if we turn the wait_for_stripe to per waitqueue for each lock hash and make the wake up exclusive: wake up one process each time, which avoids the lock contention naturally. Before go hacking with wait_for_stripe, I found it actually has 2 usages: for the array to enter or leave the quiescent state, and also to wait for an available stripe in each of the hash lists. So this patch splits the first usage off into a separate wait_queue, wait_for_quiescent, and the next patch will turn the second usage into one waitqueue for each hash value, and make it exclusive, to relieve the lock contention. v2: wake_up(wait_for_quiescent) when (active_stripes == 0) Commit log refactor suggestion from Neil. Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-05-28md/raid5: be more selective about distributing flags across batch.NeilBrown
When a batch of stripes is broken up, we keep some of the flags that were per-stripe, and copy other flags from the head to all others. This only happens while a stripe is being handled, so many of the flags are irrelevant. The "SYNC_FLAGS" (which I've renamed to make it clear there are several) and STRIPE_DEGRADED are set per-stripe and so need to be preserved. STRIPE_INSYNC is the only flag that is set on the head that needs to be propagated to all others. For safety, add a WARN_ON if others are set, except: STRIPE_HANDLE - this is safe and per-stripe and we are going to set in several cases anyway STRIPE_INSYNC STRIPE_IO_STARTED - this is just a hint and doesn't hurt. STRIPE_ON_PLUG_LIST STRIPE_ON_RELEASE_LIST - It is a point pointless for a batched stripe to be on one of these lists, but it can happen as can be safely ignored. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-05-28md/raid5: close race between STRIPE_BIT_DELAY and batching.NeilBrown
When we add a write to a stripe we need to make sure the bitmap bit is set. While doing that the stripe is not locked so it could be added to a batch after which further changes to STRIPE_BIT_DELAY and ->bm_seq are ineffective. So we need to hold off adding to a stripe until bitmap_startwrite has completed at least once, and we need to avoid further changes to STRIPE_BIT_DELAY once the stripe has been added to a batch. If a bitmap_startwrite() completes after the stripe was added to a batch, it will not have set the bit, only incremented a counter, so no extra delay of the stripe is needed. Reported-by: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-04-22md/raid5: allow the stripe_cache to grow and shrink.NeilBrown
The default setting of 256 stripe_heads is probably much too small for many configurations. So it is best to make it auto-configure. Shrinking the cache under memory pressure is easy. The only interesting part here is that we put a fairly high cost ('seeks') on shrinking the cache as the cost is greater than just having to read more data, it reduces parallelism. Growing the cache on demand needs to be done carefully. If we allow fast growth, that can upset memory balance as lots of dirty memory can quickly turn into lots of memory queued in the stripe_cache. It is important for the raid5 block device to appear congested to allow write-throttling to work. So we only add stripes slowly. We set a flag when an allocation fails because all stripes are in use, allocate at a convenient time when that flag is set, and don't allow it to be set again until at least one stripe_head has been released for re-use. This means that a spurt of requests will only cause one stripe_head to be allocated, but a steady stream of requests will slowly increase the cache size - until memory pressure puts it back again. It could take hours to reach a steady state. The value written to, and displayed in, stripe_cache_size is used as a minimum. The cache can grow above this and shrink back down to it. The actual size is not directly visible, though it can be deduced to some extent by watching stripe_cache_active. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-04-22md/raid5: change ->inactive_blocked to a bit-flag.NeilBrown
This allows us to easily add more (atomic) flags. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-04-22md/raid5: introduce configuration option rmw_levelMarkus Stockhausen
Depending on the available coding we allow optimized rmw logic for write operations. To support easier testing this patch allows manual control of the rmw/rcw descision through the interface /sys/block/mdX/md/rmw_level. The configuration can handle three levels of control. rmw_level=0: Disable rmw for all RAID types. Hardware assisted P/Q calculation has no implementation path yet to factor in/out chunks of a syndrome. Enforcing this level can be benefical for slow CPUs with hardware syndrome support and fast SSDs. rmw_level=1: Estimate rmw IOs and rcw IOs. Execute rmw only if we will save IOs. This equals the "old" unpatched behaviour and will be the default. rmw_level=2: Execute rmw even if calculated IOs for rmw and rcw are equal. We might have higher CPU consumption because of calculating the parity twice but it can be benefical otherwise. E.g. RAID4 with fast dedicated parity disk/SSD. The option is implemented just to be forward-looking and will ONLY work with this patch! Signed-off-by: Markus Stockhausen <stockhausen@collogia.de> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-04-22md/raid5: activate raid6 rmw featureMarkus Stockhausen
Glue it altogehter. The raid6 rmw path should work the same as the already existing raid5 logic. So emulate the prexor handling/flags and split functions as needed. 1) Enable xor_syndrome() in the async layer. 2) Split ops_run_prexor() into RAID4/5 and RAID6 logic. Xor the syndrome at the start of a rmw run as we did it before for the single parity. 3) Take care of rmw run in ops_run_reconstruct6(). Again process only the changed pages to get syndrome back into sync. 4) Enhance set_syndrome_sources() to fill NULL pages if we are in a rmw run. The lower layers will calculate start & end pages from that and call the xor_syndrome() correspondingly. 5) Adapt the several places where we ignored Q handling up to now. Performance numbers for a single E5630 system with a mix of 10 7200k desktop/server disks. 300 seconds random write with 8 threads onto a 3,2TB (10*400GB) RAID6 64K chunk without spare (group_thread_cnt=4) bsize rmw_level=1 rmw_level=0 rmw_level=1 rmw_level=0 skip_copy=1 skip_copy=1 skip_copy=0 skip_copy=0 4K 115 KB/s 141 KB/s 165 KB/s 140 KB/s 8K 225 KB/s 275 KB/s 324 KB/s 274 KB/s 16K 434 KB/s 536 KB/s 640 KB/s 534 KB/s 32K 751 KB/s 1,051 KB/s 1,234 KB/s 1,045 KB/s 64K 1,339 KB/s 1,958 KB/s 2,282 KB/s 1,962 KB/s 128K 2,673 KB/s 3,862 KB/s 4,113 KB/s 3,898 KB/s 256K 7,685 KB/s 7,539 KB/s 7,557 KB/s 7,638 KB/s 512K 19,556 KB/s 19,558 KB/s 19,652 KB/s 19,688 Kb/s Signed-off-by: Markus Stockhausen <stockhausen@collogia.de> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-04-22raid5: handle expansion/resync case with stripe batchingshli@kernel.org
expansion/resync can grab a stripe when the stripe is in batch list. Since all stripes in batch list must be in the same state, we can't allow some stripes run into expansion/resync. So we delay expansion/resync for stripe in batch list. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-04-22raid5: handle io error of batch listshli@kernel.org
If io error happens in any stripe of a batch list, the batch list will be split, then normal process will run for the stripes in the list. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-04-22RAID5: batch adjacent full stripe writeshli@kernel.org
stripe cache is 4k size. Even adjacent full stripe writes are handled in 4k unit. Idealy we should use big size for adjacent full stripe writes. Bigger stripe cache size means less stripes runing in the state machine so can reduce cpu overhead. And also bigger size can cause bigger IO size dispatched to under layer disks. With below patch, we will automatically batch adjacent full stripe write together. Such stripes will be added to the batch list. Only the first stripe of the list will be put to handle_list and so run handle_stripe(). Some steps of handle_stripe() are extended to cover all stripes of the list, including ops_run_io, ops_run_biodrain and so on. With this patch, we have less stripes running in handle_stripe() and we send IO of whole stripe list together to increase IO size. Stripes added to a batch list have some limitations. A batch list can only include full stripe write and can't cross chunk boundary to make sure stripes have the same parity disks. Stripes in a batch list must be in the same state (no written, toread and so on). If a stripe is in a batch list, all new read/write to add_stripe_bio will be blocked to overlap conflict till the batch list is handled. The limitations will make sure stripes in a batch list be in exactly the same state in the life circly. I did test running 160k randwrite in a RAID5 array with 32k chunk size and 6 PCIe SSD. This patch improves around 30% performance and IO size to under layer disk is exactly 32k. I also run a 4k randwrite test in the same array to make sure the performance isn't changed with the patch. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-04-22raid5: track overwrite disk countshli@kernel.org
Track overwrite disk count, so we can know if a stripe is a full stripe write. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-04-22raid5: add a new flag to track if a stripe can be batchedshli@kernel.org
A freshly new stripe with write request can be batched. Any time the stripe is handled or new read is queued, the flag will be cleared. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-04-22raid5: use flex_array for scribble datashli@kernel.org
Use flex_array for scribble data. Next patch will batch several stripes together, so scribble data should be able to cover several stripes, so this patch also allocates scribble data for stripes across a chunk. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>