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authorMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>2009-05-22 17:17:53 -0400
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-05-22 23:22:55 +0200
commitc72758f33784e5e2a1a4bb9421ef3e6de8f9fcf3 (patch)
treea83f7540cc894caafe74db911cba3998d6a9a164 /fs/partitions
parentcd43e26f071524647e660706b784ebcbefbd2e44 (diff)
downloadlinux-c72758f33784e5e2a1a4bb9421ef3e6de8f9fcf3.tar.bz2
block: Export I/O topology for block devices and partitions
To support devices with physical block sizes bigger than 512 bytes we need to ensure proper alignment. This patch adds support for exposing I/O topology characteristics as devices are stacked. logical_block_size is the smallest unit the device can address. physical_block_size indicates the smallest I/O the device can write without incurring a read-modify-write penalty. The io_min parameter is the smallest preferred I/O size reported by the device. In many cases this is the same as the physical block size. However, the io_min parameter can be scaled up when stacking (RAID5 chunk size > physical block size). The io_opt characteristic indicates the optimal I/O size reported by the device. This is usually the stripe width for arrays. The alignment_offset parameter indicates the number of bytes the start of the device/partition is offset from the device's natural alignment. Partition tools and MD/DM utilities can use this to pad their offsets so filesystems start on proper boundaries. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/partitions')
-rw-r--r--fs/partitions/check.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c
index 99e33ef40be4..0af36085eb28 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/check.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/check.c
@@ -219,6 +219,13 @@ ssize_t part_size_show(struct device *dev,
return sprintf(buf, "%llu\n",(unsigned long long)p->nr_sects);
}
+ssize_t part_alignment_offset_show(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+ struct hd_struct *p = dev_to_part(dev);
+ return sprintf(buf, "%llu\n", (unsigned long long)p->alignment_offset);
+}
+
ssize_t part_stat_show(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
@@ -272,6 +279,7 @@ ssize_t part_fail_store(struct device *dev,
static DEVICE_ATTR(partition, S_IRUGO, part_partition_show, NULL);
static DEVICE_ATTR(start, S_IRUGO, part_start_show, NULL);
static DEVICE_ATTR(size, S_IRUGO, part_size_show, NULL);
+static DEVICE_ATTR(alignment_offset, S_IRUGO, part_alignment_offset_show, NULL);
static DEVICE_ATTR(stat, S_IRUGO, part_stat_show, NULL);
#ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
static struct device_attribute dev_attr_fail =
@@ -282,6 +290,7 @@ static struct attribute *part_attrs[] = {
&dev_attr_partition.attr,
&dev_attr_start.attr,
&dev_attr_size.attr,
+ &dev_attr_alignment_offset.attr,
&dev_attr_stat.attr,
#ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
&dev_attr_fail.attr,
@@ -383,6 +392,7 @@ struct hd_struct *add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno,
pdev = part_to_dev(p);
p->start_sect = start;
+ p->alignment_offset = queue_sector_alignment_offset(disk->queue, start);
p->nr_sects = len;
p->partno = partno;
p->policy = get_disk_ro(disk);