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Joe Thornber
eec40579d8 dm: add era target
dm-era is a target that behaves similar to the linear target.  In
addition it keeps track of which blocks were written within a user
defined period of time called an 'era'.  Each era target instance
maintains the current era as a monotonically increasing 32-bit
counter.

Use cases include tracking changed blocks for backup software, and
partially invalidating the contents of a cache to restore cache
coherency after rolling back a vendor snapshot.

dm-era is primarily expected to be paired with the dm-cache target.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2014-03-27 16:56:23 -04:00
Mikulas Patocka
2995fa78e4 dm sysfs: fix a module unload race
This reverts commit be35f48610 ("dm: wait until embedded kobject is
released before destroying a device") and provides an improved fix.

The kobject release code that calls the completion must be placed in a
non-module file, otherwise there is a module unload race (if the process
calling dm_kobject_release is preempted and the DM module unloaded after
the completion is triggered, but before dm_kobject_release returns).

To fix this race, this patch moves the completion code to dm-builtin.c
which is always compiled directly into the kernel if BLK_DEV_DM is
selected.

The patch introduces a new dm_kobject_holder structure, its purpose is
to keep the completion and kobject in one place, so that it can be
accessed from non-module code without the need to export the layout of
struct mapped_device to that code.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2014-01-14 23:23:04 -05:00
Mikulas Patocka
fd2ed4d252 dm: add statistics support
Support the collection of I/O statistics on user-defined regions of
a DM device.  If no regions are defined no statistics are collected so
there isn't any performance impact.  Only bio-based DM devices are
currently supported.

Each user-defined region specifies a starting sector, length and step.
Individual statistics will be collected for each step-sized area within
the range specified.

The I/O statistics counters for each step-sized area of a region are
in the same format as /sys/block/*/stat or /proc/diskstats but extra
counters (12 and 13) are provided: total time spent reading and
writing in milliseconds.  All these counters may be accessed by sending
the @stats_print message to the appropriate DM device via dmsetup.

The creation of DM statistics will allocate memory via kmalloc or
fallback to using vmalloc space.  At most, 1/4 of the overall system
memory may be allocated by DM statistics.  The admin can see how much
memory is used by reading
/sys/module/dm_mod/parameters/stats_current_allocated_bytes

See Documentation/device-mapper/statistics.txt for more details.

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>
2013-09-05 20:46:06 -04:00
Jim Ramsay
9d0eb0ab43 dm: add switch target
dm-switch is a new target that maps IO to underlying block devices
efficiently when there is a large number of fixed-sized address regions
but there is no simple pattern to allow for a compact mapping
representation such as dm-stripe.

Though we have developed this target for a specific storage device, Dell
EqualLogic, we have made an effort to keep it as general purpose as
possible in the hope that others may benefit.

Originally developed by Jim Ramsay. Simplified by Mikulas Patocka.

Signed-off-by: Jim Ramsay <jim_ramsay@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-07-10 23:41:19 +01:00
Kent Overstreet
cafe563591 bcache: A block layer cache
Does writethrough and writeback caching, handles unclean shutdown, and
has a bunch of other nifty features motivated by real world usage.

See the wiki at http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org for more.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
2013-03-23 16:11:31 -07:00
Heinz Mauelshagen
8735a81347 dm cache: add cleaner policy
A simple cache policy that writes back all data to the origin.

This is used to decommission a dm cache by emptying it.

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-03-01 22:45:52 +00:00
Joe Thornber
f283635281 dm cache: add mq policy
A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hit
count to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted.
This is meant to be a general purpose policy.  It prioritises
reads over writes.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-03-01 22:45:51 +00:00
Joe Thornber
c6b4fcbad0 dm: add cache target
Add a target that allows a fast device such as an SSD to be used as a
cache for a slower device such as a disk.

A plug-in architecture was chosen so that the decisions about which data
to migrate and when are delegated to interchangeable tunable policy
modules.  The first general purpose module we have developed, called
"mq" (multiqueue), follows in the next patch.  Other modules are
under development.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-03-01 22:45:51 +00:00
Mike Snitzer
4f81a41762 dm thin: move bio_prison code to separate module
The bio prison code will be useful to other future DM targets so
move it to a separate module.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-10-12 21:02:13 +01:00
Mikulas Patocka
a4ffc15219 dm: add verity target
This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that transparently
validates the data on one underlying device against a pre-generated tree
of cryptographic checksums stored on a second device.

Two checksum device formats are supported: version 0 which is already
shipping in Chromium OS and version 1 which incorporates some
improvements.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Elly Jones <ellyjones@chromium.org>
Cc: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olofj@chromium.org>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-03-28 18:43:38 +01:00
Joe Thornber
991d9fa02d dm: add thin provisioning target
Initial EXPERIMENTAL implementation of device-mapper thin provisioning
with snapshot support.  The 'thin' target is used to create instances of
the virtual devices that are hosted in the 'thin-pool' target.  The
thin-pool target provides data sharing among devices.  This sharing is
made possible using the persistent-data library in the previous patch.

The main highlight of this implementation, compared to the previous
implementation of snapshots, is that it allows many virtual devices to
be stored on the same data volume, simplifying administration and
allowing sharing of data between volumes (thus reducing disk usage).

Another big feature is support for arbitrary depth of recursive
snapshots (snapshots of snapshots of snapshots ...).  The previous
implementation of snapshots did this by chaining together lookup tables,
and so performance was O(depth).  This new implementation uses a single
data structure so we don't get this degradation with depth.

For further information and examples of how to use this, please read
Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-10-31 20:21:18 +00:00
Mikulas Patocka
95d402f057 dm: add bufio
The dm-bufio interface allows you to do cached I/O on devices,
holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing delayed writes.

We don't use buffer cache or page cache already present in the kernel, because:
* we need to handle block sizes larger than a page
* we can't allocate memory to perform reads or we'd have deadlocks

Currently, when a cache is required, we limit its size to a fraction of
available memory.  Usage can be viewed and changed in
/sys/module/dm_bufio/parameters/ .

The first user is thin provisioning, but more dm users are planned.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-10-31 20:19:09 +00:00
Josef Bacik
3407ef5262 dm: add flakey target
This target is the same as the linear target except that it returns I/O
errors periodically.  It's been found useful in simulating failing
devices for testing purposes.

I needed a dm target to do some failure testing on btrfs's raid code, and
Mike pointed me at this.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-03-24 13:54:24 +00:00
NeilBrown
9d09e663d5 dm: raid456 basic support
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>
2011-01-13 20:00:02 +00:00
David Woodhouse
2144381da4 Merge branch 'async' of macbook:git/btrfs-unstable
Conflicts:
	drivers/md/Makefile
	lib/raid6/unroll.pl
2010-08-09 10:36:44 +01:00
David Woodhouse
f5e70d0fe3 md: Factor out RAID6 algorithms into lib/
We'll want to use these in btrfs too.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-10-29 14:38:47 +00:00
Vladimir Dronnikov
dce3a7a42d md: drivers/md/unroll.pl replaced with awk analog
drivers/md/unroll.pl replaced by awk script to drop build-time
dependency on perl

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-10-16 16:25:19 +11:00
Jonthan Brassow
f5db4af466 dm raid1: add userspace log
This patch contains a device-mapper mirror log module that forwards
requests to userspace for processing.

The structures used for communication between kernel and userspace are
located in include/linux/dm-log-userspace.h.  Due to the frequency,
diversity, and 2-way communication nature of the exchanges between
kernel and userspace, 'connector' was chosen as the interface for
communication.

The first log implementations written in userspace - "clustered-disk"
and "clustered-core" - support clustered shared storage.   A userspace
daemon (in the LVM2 source code repository) uses openAIS/corosync to
process requests in an ordered fashion with the rest of the nodes in the
cluster so as to prevent log state corruption.  Other implementations
with no association to LVM or openAIS/corosync, are certainly possible.

(Imagine if two machines are writing to the same region of a mirror.
They would both mark the region dirty, but you need a cluster-aware
entity that can handle properly marking the region clean when they are
done.  Otherwise, you might clear the region when the first machine is
done, not the second.)

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-06-22 10:12:35 +01:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
f392ba889b dm mpath: add service time load balancer
This patch adds a service time oriented dynamic load balancer,
dm-service-time, which selects the path with the shortest estimated
service time for the incoming I/O.
The service time is estimated by dividing the in-flight I/O size
by a performance value of each path.

The performance value can be given as a table argument at the table
loading time.  If no performance value is given, all paths are
considered equal.

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: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-06-22 10:12:28 +01:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
fd5e033908 dm mpath: add queue length load balancer
This patch adds a dynamic load balancer, dm-queue-length, which
balances the number of in-flight I/Os across the paths.

The code is based on the patch posted by Stefan Bader:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2005-October/msg00050.html

Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
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: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-06-22 10:12:27 +01:00
Dan Williams
f701d589aa md/raid6: move raid6 data processing to raid6_pq.ko
Move the raid6 data processing routines into a standalone module
(raid6_pq) to prepare them to be called from async_tx wrappers and other
non-md drivers/modules.  This precludes a circular dependency of raid456
needing the async modules for data processing while those modules in
turn depend on raid456 for the base level synchronous raid6 routines.

To support this move:
1/ The exportable definitions in raid6.h move to include/linux/raid/pq.h
2/ The raid6_call, recovery calls, and table symbols are exported
3/ Extra #ifdef __KERNEL__ statements to enable the userspace raid6test to
   compile

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 15:09:39 +11:00
Christoph Hellwig
2a40a8aed0 cleanup drivers/md/Makefile
Use the -y variables instead of the old -objs so we can easily add
conditional objects to the modules.  Also always use += to add
subobjects to avoid problems when placing additional objects in
some place in the file.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:27:02 +11:00
Alasdair G Kergon
4db6bfe02b dm snapshot: split out exception store implementations
Move the existing snapshot exception store implementations out into
separate files.  Later patches will place these behind a new
interface in preparation for alternative implementations.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-01-06 03:05:17 +00:00
Milan Broz
784aae735d dm: add name and uuid to sysfs
Implement simple read-only sysfs entry for device-mapper block device.

This patch adds a simple sysfs directory named "dm" under block device
properties and implements
	- name attribute (string containing mapped device name)
	- uuid attribute (string containing UUID, or empty string if not set)

The kobject is embedded in mapped_device struct, so no additional
memory allocation is needed for initializing sysfs entry.

During the processing of sysfs attribute we need to lock mapped device
which is done by a new function dm_get_from_kobj, which returns the md
associated with kobject and increases the usage count.

Each 'show attribute' function is responsible for its own locking.

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-01-06 03:05:12 +00:00
Heinz Mauelshagen
1f965b1943 dm raid1: separate region_hash interface part1
Separate the region hash code from raid1 so it can be shared by forthcoming
targets.  Use BUG_ON() for failed async dm_io() calls.

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <hjm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-10-21 17:45:06 +01:00
Chandra Seetharaman
688864e298 [SCSI] scsi_dh: Remove hardware handler infrastructure from dm
This patch just removes infrastructure that provided support for hardware
handlers in the dm layer as it is not needed anymore.

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-06-05 09:23:42 -05:00
Chandra Seetharaman
cb520223d7 [SCSI] scsi_dh: Remove hardware handlers from dm
This patch removes the 3 hardware handlers that currently exist
under dm as the functionality is moved to SCSI layer in the earlier
patches.

[jejb: removed more makefile hunks and rejection fixes]
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-06-05 09:23:41 -05:00
Alasdair G Kergon
a765e20eeb dm: move include files
Publish the dm-io, dm-log and dm-kcopyd headers in include/linux.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-04-25 13:26:55 +01:00
Heinz Mauelshagen
769aef30f0 dm log: move dirty region log code into separate module
Move the dirty region log code into a separate module so
other targets can share the code.

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <hjm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-04-25 13:26:39 +01:00
Mike Anderson
51e5b2bd34 dm: add uevent to core
This patch adds a uevent skeleton to device-mapper.

Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2007-10-20 02:01:24 +01:00
Dave Wysochanski
16ebbf3584 dm mpath: add hp handler
This patch adds the most basic dm-multipath hardware support for the
HP active/passive arrays.

Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Acked-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2007-10-20 02:01:19 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
e030dbf91a Merge branch 'ioat-md-accel-for-linus' of git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop
* 'ioat-md-accel-for-linus' of git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop: (28 commits)
  ioatdma: add the unisys "i/oat" pci vendor/device id
  ARM: Add drivers/dma to arch/arm/Kconfig
  iop3xx: surface the iop3xx DMA and AAU units to the iop-adma driver
  iop13xx: surface the iop13xx adma units to the iop-adma driver
  dmaengine: driver for the iop32x, iop33x, and iop13xx raid engines
  md: remove raid5 compute_block and compute_parity5
  md: handle_stripe5 - request io processing in raid5_run_ops
  md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async expand ops
  md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async read ops
  md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async check ops
  md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async compute ops
  md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async write ops
  md: common infrastructure for running operations with raid5_run_ops
  md: raid5_run_ops - run stripe operations outside sh->lock
  raid5: replace custom debug PRINTKs with standard pr_debug
  raid5: refactor handle_stripe5 and handle_stripe6 (v3)
  async_tx: add the async_tx api
  xor: make 'xor_blocks' a library routine for use with async_tx
  dmaengine: make clients responsible for managing channels
  dmaengine: refactor dmaengine around dma_async_tx_descriptor
  ...
2007-07-13 10:52:27 -07:00
Dan Williams
685784aaf3 xor: make 'xor_blocks' a library routine for use with async_tx
The async_tx api tries to use a dma engine for an operation, but will fall
back to an optimized software routine otherwise.  Xor support is
implemented using the raid5 xor routines.  For organizational purposes this
routine is moved to a common area.

The following fixes are also made:
* rename xor_block => xor_blocks, suggested by Adrian Bunk
* ensure that xor.o initializes before md.o in the built-in case
* checkpatch.pl fixes
* mark calibrate_xor_blocks __init, Adrian Bunk

Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2007-07-13 08:06:14 -07:00
Chandra Seetharaman
dd172d72ad dm mpath: rdac
This patch supports LSI/Engenio devices in RDAC mode. Like dm-emc
it requires userspace support. In your multipath.conf file you must have:

path_checker            rdac
hardware_handler        "1 rdac"
prio_callout		"/sbin/mpath_prio_tpc /dev/%n"

And you also then must have a updated multipath tools release which
has rdac support.

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 15:01:23 -07:00
Heinz Mauelshagen
26b9f22870 dm: delay target
New device-mapper target that can delay I/O (for testing).  Reads can be
separated from writes, redirected to different underlying devices and delayed
by differing amounts of time.

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:47 -07:00
NeilBrown
16a53ecc35 [PATCH] md: merge raid5 and raid6 code
There is a lot of commonality between raid5.c and raid6main.c.  This patches
merges both into one module called raid456.  This saves a lot of code, and
paves the way for online raid5->raid6 migrations.

There is still duplication, e.g.  between handle_stripe5 and handle_stripe6.
This will probably be cleaned up later.

Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:37 -07:00
NeilBrown
32a7627cf3 [PATCH] md: optimised resync using Bitmap based intent logging
With this patch, the intent to write to some block in the array can be logged
to a bitmap file.  Each bit represents some number of sectors and is set
before any update happens, and only cleared when all writes relating to all
sectors are complete.

After an unclean shutdown, information in this bitmap can be used to optimise
resync - only sectors which could be out-of-sync need to be updated.

Also if a drive is removed and then added back into an array, the recovery can
make use of the bitmap to optimise reconstruction.  This is not implemented in
this patch.

Currently the bitmap is stored in a file which must (obviously) be stored on a
separate device.

The patch only provided infrastructure.  It does not update any personalities
to bitmap intent logging.

Md arrays can still be used with no bitmap file.  This patch has minimal
impact on such arrays.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 19:07:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00