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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-04-01 19:43:53 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-04-01 19:43:53 -0700
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Merge branch 'for-3.15/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block driver update from Jens Axboe: "On top of the core pull request, here's the pull request for the driver related changes for 3.15. It contains: - Improvements for msi-x registration for block drivers (mtip32xx, skd, cciss, nvme) from Alexander Gordeev. - A round of cleanups and improvements for drbd from Andreas Gruenbacher and Rashika Kheria. - A round of clanups and improvements for bcache from Kent. - Removal of sleep_on() and friends in DAC960, ataflop, swim3 from Arnd Bergmann. - Bug fix for a bug in the mtip32xx async completion code from Sam Bradshaw. - Bug fix for accidentally bouncing IO on 32-bit platforms with mtip32xx from Felipe Franciosi" * 'for-3.15/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (103 commits) bcache: remove nested function usage bcache: Kill bucket->gc_gen bcache: Kill unused freelist bcache: Rework btree cache reserve handling bcache: Kill btree_io_wq bcache: btree locking rework bcache: Fix a race when freeing btree nodes bcache: Add a real GC_MARK_RECLAIMABLE bcache: Add bch_keylist_init_single() bcache: Improve priority_stats bcache: Better alloc tracepoints bcache: Kill dead cgroup code bcache: stop moving_gc marking buckets that can't be moved. bcache: Fix moving_pred() bcache: Fix moving_gc deadlocking with a foreground write bcache: Fix discard granularity bcache: Fix another bug recovering from unclean shutdown bcache: Fix a bug recovering from unclean shutdown bcache: Fix a journalling reclaim after recovery bug bcache: Fix a null ptr deref in journal replay ...
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+This describes the in kernel data structure for DRBD-9. Starting with
+Linux v3.14 we are reorganizing DRBD to use this data structure.
+
+Basic Data Structure
+====================
+
+A node has a number of DRBD resources. Each such resource has a number of
+devices (aka volumes) and connections to other nodes ("peer nodes"). Each DRBD
+device is represented by a block device locally.
+
+The DRBD objects are interconnected to form a matrix as depicted below; a
+drbd_peer_device object sits at each intersection between a drbd_device and a
+drbd_connection:
+
+ /--------------+---------------+.....+---------------\
+ | resource | device | | device |
+ +--------------+---------------+.....+---------------+
+ | connection | peer_device | | peer_device |
+ +--------------+---------------+.....+---------------+
+ : : : : :
+ : : : : :
+ +--------------+---------------+.....+---------------+
+ | connection | peer_device | | peer_device |
+ \--------------+---------------+.....+---------------/
+
+In this table, horizontally, devices can be accessed from resources by their
+volume number. Likewise, peer_devices can be accessed from connections by
+their volume number. Objects in the vertical direction are connected by double
+linked lists. There are back pointers from peer_devices to their connections a
+devices, and from connections and devices to their resource.
+
+All resources are in the drbd_resources double-linked list. In addition, all
+devices can be accessed by their minor device number via the drbd_devices idr.
+
+The drbd_resource, drbd_connection, and drbd_device objects are reference
+counted. The peer_device objects only serve to establish the links between
+devices and connections; their lifetime is determined by the lifetime of the
+device and connection which they reference.