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2013-09-02raid5: only wakeup necessary threadsShaohua Li1-0/+3
If there are not enough stripes to handle, we'd better not always queue all available work_structs. If one worker can only handle small or even none stripes, it will impact request merge and create lock contention. With this patch, the number of work_struct running will depend on pending stripes number. Note: some statistics info used in the patch are accessed without locking protection. This should doesn't matter, we just try best to avoid queue unnecessary work_struct. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2013-08-28md/raid5: use seqcount to protect access to shape in make_request.NeilBrown1-0/+1
make_request() access various shape parameters (raid_disks, chunk_size etc) which might be changed by raid5_start_reshape(). If the later is called at and awkward time during the form, the wrong stripe_head might be used. So introduce a 'seqcount' and after finding a stripe_head make sure there is no reason to expect that we got the wrong one. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2013-08-28raid5: offload stripe handle to workqueueShaohua Li1-0/+15
This is another attempt to create multiple threads to handle raid5 stripes. This time I use workqueue. raid5 handles request (especially write) in stripe unit. A stripe is page size aligned/long and acrosses all disks. Writing to any disk sector, raid5 runs a state machine for the corresponding stripe, which includes reading some disks of the stripe, calculating parity, and writing some disks of the stripe. The state machine is running in raid5d thread currently. Since there is only one thread, it doesn't scale well for high speed storage. An obvious solution is multi-threading. To get better performance, we have some requirements: a. locality. stripe corresponding to request submitted from one cpu is better handled in thread in local cpu or local node. local cpu is preferred but some times could be a bottleneck, for example, parity calculation is too heavy. local node running has wide adaptability. b. configurablity. Different setup of raid5 array might need diffent configuration. Especially the thread number. More threads don't always mean better performance because of lock contentions. My original implementation is creating some kernel threads. There are interfaces to control which cpu's stripe each thread should handle. And userspace can set affinity of the threads. This provides biggest flexibility and configurability. But it's hard to use and apparently a new thread pool implementation is disfavor. Recent workqueue improvement is quite promising. unbound workqueue will be bound to numa node. If WQ_SYSFS is set in workqueue, there are sysfs option to do affinity setting. For example, we can only include one HT sibling in affinity. Since work is non-reentrant by default, and we can control running thread number by limiting dispatched work_struct number. In this patch, I created several stripe worker group. A group is a numa node. stripes from cpus of one node will be added to a group list. Workqueue thread of one node will only handle stripes of worker group of the node. In this way, stripe handling has numa node locality. And as I said, we can control thread number by limiting dispatched work_struct number. The work_struct callback function handles several stripes in one run. A typical work queue usage is to run one unit in each work_struct. In raid5 case, the unit is a stripe. But we can't do that: a. Though handling a stripe doesn't need lock because of reference accounting and stripe isn't in any list, queuing a work_struct for each stripe will make workqueue lock contended very heavily. b. blk_start_plug()/blk_finish_plug() should surround stripe handle, as we might dispatch request. If each work_struct only handles one stripe, such block plug is meaningless. This implementation can't do very fine grained configuration. But the numa binding is most popular usage model, should be enough for most workloads. Note: since we have only one stripe queue, switching to multi-thread might decrease request size dispatching down to low level layer. The impact depends on thread number, raid configuration and workload. So multi-thread raid5 might not be proper for all setups. Changes V1 -> V2: 1. remove WQ_NON_REENTRANT 2. disabling multi-threading by default 3. Add more descriptions in changelog Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2013-08-28raid5: make release_stripe locklessShaohua Li1-0/+3
release_stripe still has big lock contention. We just add the stripe to a llist without taking device_lock. We let the raid5d thread to do the real stripe release, which must hold device_lock anyway. In this way, release_stripe doesn't hold any locks. The side effect is the released stripes order is changed. But sounds not a big deal, stripes are never handled in order. And I thought block layer can already do nice request merge, which means order isn't that important. I kept the unplug release batch, which is unnecessary with this patch from lock contention avoid point of view, and actually if we delete it, the stripe_head release_list and lru can share storage. But the unplug release batch is also helpful for request merge. We probably can delay wakeup raid5d till unplug, but I'm still afraid of the case which raid5d is running. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2013-07-25md/raid5: fix interaction of 'replace' and 'recovery'.NeilBrown1-0/+1
If a device in a RAID4/5/6 is being replaced while another is being recovered, then the writes to the replacement device currently don't happen, resulting in corruption when the replacement completes and the new drive takes over. This is because the replacement writes are only triggered when 's.replacing' is set and not when the similar 's.sync' is set (which is the case during resync and recovery - it means all devices need to be read). So schedule those writes when s.replacing is set as well. In this case we cannot use "STRIPE_INSYNC" to record that the replacement has happened as that is needed for recording that any parity calculation is complete. So introduce STRIPE_REPLACED to record if the replacement has happened. For safety we should also check that STRIPE_COMPUTE_RUN is not set. This has a similar effect to the "s.locked == 0" test. The latter ensure that now IO has been flagged but not started. The former checks if any parity calculation has been flagged by not started. We must wait for both of these to complete before triggering the 'replace'. Add a similar test to the subsequent check for "are we finished yet". This possibly isn't needed (is subsumed in the STRIPE_INSYNC test), but it makes it more obvious that the REPLACE will happen before we think we are finished. Finally if a NeedReplace device is not UPTODATE then that is an error. We really must trigger a warning. This bug was introduced in commit 9a3e1101b827a59ac9036a672f5fa8d5279d0fe2 (md/raid5: detect and handle replacements during recovery.) which introduced replacement for raid5. That was in 3.3-rc3, so any stable kernel since then would benefit from this fix. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (3.3+) Reported-by: qindehua <13691222965@163.com> Tested-by: qindehua <qindehua@163.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2013-03-20md: remove CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456 entirelyPaul Bolle1-4/+0
Once instance of this Kconfig macro remained after commit 51acbcec6c42b24482bac18e42befc822524535d ("md: remove CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456"). Remove that one too. And, while we're at it, also remove it from the defconfig files that carry it. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2013-03-20md/raid5: ensure sync and DISCARD don't happen at the same time.NeilBrown1-0/+1
A number of problems can occur due to races between resync/recovery and discard. - if sync_request calls handle_stripe() while a discard is happening on the stripe, it might call handle_stripe_clean_event before all of the individual discard requests have completed (so some devices are still locked, but not all). Since commit ca64cae96037de16e4af92678814f5d4bf0c1c65 md/raid5: Make sure we clear R5_Discard when discard is finished. this will cause R5_Discard to be cleared for the parity device, so handle_stripe_clean_event() will not be called when the other devices do become unlocked, so their ->written will not be cleared. This ultimately leads to a WARN_ON in init_stripe and a lock-up. - If handle_stripe_clean_event() does clear R5_UPTODATE at an awkward time for resync, it can lead to s->uptodate being less than disks in handle_parity_checks5(), which triggers a BUG (because it is one). So: - keep R5_Discard on the parity device until all other devices have completed their discard request - make sure we don't try to have a 'discard' and a 'sync' action at the same time. This involves a new stripe flag to we know when a 'discard' is happening, and the use of R5_Overlap on the parity disk so when a discard is wanted while a sync is active, so we know to wake up the discard at the appropriate time. Discard support for RAID5 was added in 3.7, so this is suitable for any -stable kernel since 3.7. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v3.7+) Reported-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-10-11MD: raid5 trim supportShaohua Li1-0/+1
Discard for raid4/5/6 has limitation. If discard request size is small, we do discard for one disk, but we need calculate parity and write parity disk. To correctly calculate parity, zero_after_discard must be guaranteed. Even it's true, we need do discard for one disk but write another disks, which makes the parity disks wear out fast. This doesn't make sense. So an efficient discard for raid4/5/6 should discard all data disks and parity disks, which requires the write pattern to be (A, A+chunk_size, A+chunk_size*2...). If A's size is smaller than chunk_size, such pattern is almost impossible in practice. So in this patch, I only handle the case that A's size equals to chunk_size. That is discard request should be aligned to stripe size and its size is multiple of stripe size. Since we can only handle request with specific alignment and size (or part of the request fitting stripes), we can't guarantee zero_after_discard even zero_after_discard is true in low level drives. The block layer doesn't send down correctly aligned requests even correct discard alignment is set, so I must filter out. For raid4/5/6 parity calculation, if data is 0, parity is 0. So if zero_after_discard is true for all disks, data is consistent after discard. Otherwise, data might be lost. Let's consider a scenario: discard a stripe, write data to one disk and write parity disk. The stripe could be still inconsistent till then depending on using data from other data disks or parity disks to calculate new parity. If the disk is broken, we can't restore it. So in this patch, we only enable discard support if all disks have zero_after_discard. If discard fails in one disk, we face the similar inconsistent issue above. The patch will make discard follow the same path as normal write request. If discard fails, a resync will be scheduled to make the data consistent. This isn't good to have extra writes, but data consistency is important. If a subsequent read/write request hits raid5 cache of a discarded stripe, the discarded dev page should have zero filled, so the data is consistent. This patch will always zero dev page for discarded request stripe. This isn't optimal because discard request doesn't need such payload. Next patch will avoid it. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-08-02Merge tag 'md-3.6' of git://neil.brown.name/mdLinus Torvalds1-0/+1
Pull additional md update from NeilBrown: "This contains a few patches that depend on plugging changes in the block layer so needed to wait for those. It also contains a Kconfig fix for the new RAID10 support in dm-raid." * tag 'md-3.6' of git://neil.brown.name/md: md/dm-raid: DM_RAID should select MD_RAID10 md/raid1: submit IO from originating thread instead of md thread. raid5: raid5d handle stripe in batch way raid5: make_request use batch stripe release
2012-08-02raid5: make_request use batch stripe releaseShaohua Li1-0/+1
make_request() does stripe release for every stripe and the stripe usually has count 1, which makes previous release_stripe() optimization not work. In my test, this release_stripe() becomes the heaviest pleace to take conf->device_lock after previous patches applied. Below patch makes stripe release batch. All the stripes will be released in unplug. The STRIPE_ON_UNPLUG_LIST bit is to protect concurrent access stripe lru. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-07-31raid5: Add R5_ReadNoMerge flag which prevent bio from merging at block layermajianpeng1-0/+1
Because bios will merge at block-layer,so bios-error may caused by other bio which be merged into to the same request. Using this flag,it will find exactly error-sector and not do redundant operation like re-write and re-read. V0->V1:Using REQ_FLUSH instead REQ_NOMERGE avoid bio merging at block layer. Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-07-19raid5: add a per-stripe lockShaohua Li1-0/+1
Add a per-stripe lock to protect stripe specific data. The purpose is to reduce lock contention of conf->device_lock. stripe ->toread, ->towrite are protected by per-stripe lock. Accessing bio list of the stripe is always serialized by this lock, so adding bio to the lists (add_stripe_bio()) and removing bio from the lists (like ops_run_biofill()) not race. If bio in ->read, ->written ... list are not shared by multiple stripes, we don't need any lock to protect ->read, ->written, because STRIPE_ACTIVE will protect them. If the bio are shared, there are two protections: 1. bi_phys_segments acts as a reference count 2. traverse the list uses r5_next_bio, which makes traverse never access bio not belonging to the stripe Let's have an example: | stripe1 | stripe2 | stripe3 | ...bio1......|bio2|bio3|....bio4..... stripe2 has 4 bios, when it's finished, it will decrement bi_phys_segments for all bios, but only end_bio for bio2 and bio3. bio1->bi_next still points to bio2, but this doesn't matter. When stripe1 is finished, it will not touch bio2 because of r5_next_bio check. Next time stripe1 will end_bio for bio1 and stripe3 will end_bio bio4. before add_stripe_bio() addes a bio to a stripe, we already increament the bio bi_phys_segments, so don't worry other stripes release the bio. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-05-22raid5: support sync requestShaohua Li1-0/+1
REQ_SYNC is ignored in current raid5 code. Block layer does use it to do policy, for example ioscheduler. This patch adds it. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-05-21md/raid5: allow for change in data_offset while managing a reshape.NeilBrown1-0/+6
The important issue here is incorporating the different in data_offset into calculations concerning when we might need to over-write data that is still thought to be valid. To this end we find the minimum offset difference across all devices and add that where appropriate. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23md/raid5: detect and handle replacements during recovery.NeilBrown1-1/+12
During recovery we want to write to the replacement but not the original. So we have two new flags - R5_NeedReplace if this stripe has a replacement that needs to be written at some stage - R5_WantReplace if NeedReplace, and the data is available, and a 'sync' has been requested on this stripe. We also distinguish between 'sync and replace' which need to read all other devices, and 'replace' which only needs to read the devices being replaced. Note that during resync we always write to any replacement device. It might not need to be written to, but as we don't read to compare, we have to write to be sure. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23md/raid5: writes should get directed to replacement as well as original.NeilBrown1-0/+1
When writing, we need to submit two writes, one to the original, and one to the replacement - if there is a replacement. If the write to the replacement results in a write error, we just fail the device. We only try to record write errors to the original. When writing for recovery, we shouldn't write to the original. This will be addressed in a subsequent patch that generally addresses recovery. Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23md/raid5: raid5.h cleanupNeilBrown1-18/+9
Remove some #defines that are no longer used, and replace some others with an enum. And remove an unused field. Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23md/raid5: allow each slot to have an extra replacement deviceNeilBrown1-24/+33
Just enhance data structures to record a second device per slot to be used as a 'replacement' device, replacing the original. We also have a second bio in each slot in each stripe_head. This will only be used when writing to the array - we need to write to both the original and the replacement at the same time, so will need two bios. For now, only try using the replacement drive for aligned-reads. In this case, we prefer the replacement if it has been recovered far enough, otherwise use the original. This includes a small enhancement. Previously we would only do aligned reads if the target device was fully recovered. Now we also do them if it has recovered far enough. Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-10-11md/raid5: typedef removal: raid5_conf_t -> struct r5confNeilBrown1-5/+3
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-10-11md: remove typedefs: mdk_thread_t -> struct md_threadNeilBrown1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-10-11md: remove typedefs: mddev_t -> struct mddevNeilBrown1-3/+3
Having mddev_t and 'struct mddev_s' is ugly and not preferred Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-10-11md: removing typedefs: mdk_rdev_t -> struct md_rdevNeilBrown1-2/+2
The typedefs are just annoying. 'mdk' probably refers to 'md_k.h' which used to be an include file that defined this thing. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-28md/raid5: Clear bad blocks on successful write.NeilBrown1-0/+1
On a successful write to a known bad block, flag the sh so that raid5d can remove the known bad block from the list. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-28md/raid5: write errors should be recorded as bad blocks if possible.NeilBrown1-8/+10
When a write error is detected, don't mark the device as failed immediately but rather record the fact for handle_stripe to deal with. Handle_stripe then attempts to record a bad block. Only if that fails does the device get marked as faulty. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-28md/raid5: use bad-block log to improve handling of uncorrectable read errors.NeilBrown1-1/+1
If we get an uncorrectable read error - record a bad block rather than failing the device. And if these errors (which may be due to known bad blocks) cause recovery to be impossible, record a bad block on the recovering devices, or abort the recovery. As we might abort a recovery without failing a device we need to teach RAID5 about recovery_disabled handling. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-26md/raid5: add some more fields to stripe_head_stateNeilBrown1-1/+5
Adding these three fields will allow more common code to be moved to handle_stripe() struct field rearrangement by Namhyung Kim. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
2011-07-26md/raid5: unify stripe_head_state and r6_stateNeilBrown1-6/+2
'struct stripe_head_state' stores state about the 'current' stripe that is passed around while handling the stripe. For RAID6 there is an extension structure: r6_state, which is also passed around. There is no value in keeping these separate, so move the fields from the latter into the former. This means that all code now needs to treat s->failed_num as an small array, but this is a small cost. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
2011-07-26md/raid5: replace sh->lock with an 'active' flag.NeilBrown1-19/+16
sh->lock is now mainly used to ensure that two threads aren't running in the locked part of handle_stripe[56] at the same time. That can more neatly be achieved with an 'active' flag which we set while running handle_stripe. If we find the flag is set, we simply requeue the stripe for later by setting STRIPE_HANDLE. For safety we take ->device_lock while examining the state of the stripe and creating a summary in 'stripe_head_state / r6_state'. This possibly isn't needed but as shared fields like ->toread, ->towrite are checked it is safer for now at least. We leave the label after the old 'unlock' called "unlock" because it will disappear in a few patches, so renaming seems pointless. This leaves the stripe 'locked' for longer as we clear STRIPE_ACTIVE later, but that is not a problem. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
2011-07-26md/raid5: Remove use of sh->lock in sync_requestNeilBrown1-15/+18
This is the start of a series of patches to remove sh->lock. sync_request takes sh->lock before setting STRIPE_SYNCING to ensure there is no race with testing it in handle_stripe[56]. Instead, use a new flag STRIPE_SYNC_REQUESTED and test it early in handle_stripe[56] (after getting the same lock) and perform the same set/clear operations if it was set. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
2011-04-18md - remove old plugging code.NeilBrown1-2/+0
md has some plugging infrastructure for RAID5 to use because the normal plugging infrastructure required a 'request_queue', and when called from dm, RAID5 doesn't have one of those available. This relied on the ->unplug_fn callback which doesn't exist any more. So remove all of that code, both in md and raid5. Subsequent patches with restore the plugging functionality. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-03-10block: remove per-queue pluggingJens Axboe1-1/+1
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 <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10md: implment REQ_FLUSH/FUA supportTejun Heo1-0/+1
This patch converts md to support REQ_FLUSH/FUA instead of now deprecated REQ_HARDBARRIER. In the core part (md.c), the following changes are notable. * Unlike REQ_HARDBARRIER, REQ_FLUSH/FUA don't interfere with processing of other requests and thus there is no reason to mark the queue congested while FLUSH/FUA is in progress. * REQ_FLUSH/FUA failures are final and its users don't need retry logic. Retry logic is removed. * Preflush needs to be issued to all member devices but FUA writes can be handled the same way as other writes - their processing can be deferred to request_queue of member devices. md_barrier_request() is renamed to md_flush_request() and simplified accordingly. For linear, raid0 and multipath, the core changes are enough. raid1, 5 and 10 need the following conversions. * raid1: Handling of FLUSH/FUA bio's can simply be deferred to request_queues of member devices. Barrier related logic removed. * raid5: Queue draining logic dropped. FUA bit is propagated through biodrain and stripe resconstruction such that all the updated parts of the stripe are written out with FUA writes if any of the dirtying writes was FUA. preread_active_stripes handling in make_request() is updated as suggested by Neil Brown. * raid10: FUA bit needs to be propagated to write clones. linear, raid0, 1, 5 and 10 tested. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-07-26md/raid5: export raid5 unplugging interface.NeilBrown1-0/+1
Also remove remaining accesses to ->queue and ->gendisk when ->queue is NULL (As it is in a DM target). Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md/raid5: add simple plugging infrastructure.NeilBrown1-0/+3
md/raid5 uses the plugging infrastructure provided by the block layer and 'struct request_queue'. However when we plug raid5 under dm there is no request queue so we cannot use that. So create a similar infrastructure that is much lighter weight and use it for raid5. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md/raid5: export is_congested testNeilBrown1-0/+2
the dm module will need this for dm-raid45. Also only access ->queue->backing_dev_info->congested_fn if ->queue actually exists. It won't in a dm target. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md/raid5: ensure we create a unique name for kmem_cache when mddev has no ↵NeilBrown1-1/+1
gendisk We will shortly allow md devices with no gendisk (they are attached to a dm-target instead). That will cause mdname() to return 'mdX'. There is one place where mdname really needs to be unique: when creating the name for a slab cache. So in that case, if there is no gendisk, you the address of the mddev formatted in HEX to provide a unique name. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-21md/raid5: factor out code for changing size of stripe cache.NeilBrown1-0/+1
Separate the actual 'change' code from the sysfs interface so that it can eventually be called internally. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-02-17percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to what's leftTejun Heo1-1/+1
Add __percpu sparse annotations to places which didn't make it in one of the previous patches. All converions are trivial. These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be in a different address space and warn if accessed without going through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-10-16md: fix problems with RAID6 calculations for DDF.NeilBrown1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-10-16md/raid456: downlevel multicore operations to raid_run_opsDan Williams1-1/+11
The percpu conversion allowed a straightforward handoff of stripe processing to the async subsytem that initially showed some modest gains (+4%). However, this model is too simplistic and leads to stripes bouncing between raid5d and the async thread pool for every invocation of handle_stripe(). As reported by Holger this can fall into a pathological situation severely impacting throughput (6x performance loss). By downleveling the parallelism to raid_run_ops the pathological stripe_head bouncing is eliminated. This version still exhibits an average 11% throughput loss for: mdadm --create /dev/md0 /dev/sd[b-q] -n 16 -l 6 echo 1024 > /sys/block/md0/md/stripe_cache_size dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=1024k count=2048 ...but the results are at least stable and can be used as a base for further multicore experimentation. Reported-by: Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-09-08Merge branch 'dmaengine' into async-tx-nextDan Williams1-4/+4
Conflicts: crypto/async_tx/async_xor.c drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v2.h drivers/dma/ioat/pci.c drivers/md/raid5.c
2009-08-29md/raid6: asynchronous raid6 operationsDan Williams1-3/+5
[ Based on an original patch by Yuri Tikhonov ] The raid_run_ops routine uses the asynchronous offload api and the stripe_operations member of a stripe_head to carry out xor+pq+copy operations asynchronously, outside the lock. The operations performed by RAID-6 are the same as in the RAID-5 case except for no support of STRIPE_OP_PREXOR operations. All the others are supported: STRIPE_OP_BIOFILL - copy data into request buffers to satisfy a read request STRIPE_OP_COMPUTE_BLK - generate missing blocks (1 or 2) in the cache from the other blocks STRIPE_OP_BIODRAIN - copy data out of request buffers to satisfy a write request STRIPE_OP_RECONSTRUCT - recalculate parity for new data that has entered the cache STRIPE_OP_CHECK - verify that the parity is correct The flow is the same as in the RAID-5 case, and reuses some routines, namely: 1/ ops_complete_postxor (renamed to ops_complete_reconstruct) 2/ ops_complete_compute (updated to set up to 2 targets uptodate) 3/ ops_run_check (renamed to ops_run_check_p for xor parity checks) [neilb@suse.de: fixes to get it to pass mdadm regression suite] Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com> Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok <yanok@emcraft.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-08-29async_tx: add sum check flagsDan Williams1-2/+3
Replace the flat zero_sum_result with a collection of flags to contain the P (xor) zero-sum result, and the soon to be utilized Q (raid6 reed solomon syndrome) zero-sum result. Use the SUM_CHECK_ namespace instead of DMA_ since these flags will be used on non-dma-zero-sum enabled platforms. Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-08-29md/raid5,6: add percpu scribble region for buffer listsDan Williams1-0/+8
Use percpu memory rather than stack for storing the buffer lists used in parity calculations. Include space for dma address conversions and pass that to async_tx via the async_submit_ctl.scribble pointer. [ Impact: move memory pressure from stack to heap ] Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-08-29md/raid6: move the spare page to a percpu allocationDan Williams1-2/+7
In preparation for asynchronous handling of raid6 operations move the spare page to a percpu allocation to allow multiple simultaneous synchronous raid6 recovery operations. Make this allocation cpu hotplug aware to maximize allocation efficiency. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-06-18md: convert conf->chunk_size and conf->prev_chunk to sectors.Andre Noll1-2/+4
This kills some more shifts. Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-06-16md: remove mddev_to_conf "helper" macroNeilBrown1-2/+0
Having a macro just to cast a void* isn't really helpful. I would must rather see that we are simply de-referencing ->private, than have to know what the macro does. So open code the macro everywhere and remove the pointless cast. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31md/raid5 revise rules for when to update metadata during reshapeNeilBrown1-0/+2
We currently update the metadata : 1/ every 3Megabytes 2/ When the place we will write new-layout data to is recorded in the metadata as still containing old-layout data. Rule one exists to avoid having to re-do too much reshaping in the face of a crash/restart. So it should really be time based rather than size based. So change it to "every 10 seconds". Rule two turns out to be too harsh when restriping an array 'in-place', as in that case the metadata much be updates for every stripe. For the in-place update, it can only possibly be safe from a crash if some user-space program data a backup of every e.g. few hundred stripes before allowing them to be reshaped. In that case, the constant metadata update is pointless. So only update the metadata if the new metadata will report that the end of the 'old-layout' data is beyond where we are currently writing 'new-layout' data. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31md/raid5: prepare for allowing reshape to change layoutNeilBrown1-1/+1
Add prev_algo to raid5_conf_t along the same lines as prev_chunk and previous_raid_disks. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31md/raid5: prepare for allowing reshape to change chunksize.NeilBrown1-0/+1
Add "prev_chunk" to raid5_conf_t, similar to "previous_raid_disks", to remember what the chunk size was before the reshape that is currently underway. This seems like duplication with "chunk_size" and "new_chunk" in mddev_t, and to some extent it is, but there are differences. The values in mddev_t are always defined and often the same. The prev* values are only defined if a reshape is underway. Also (and more significantly) the raid5_conf_t values will be changed at the same time (inside an appropriate lock) that the reshape is started by setting reshape_position. In contrast, the new_chunk value is set when the sysfs file is written which could be well before the reshape starts. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>