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Mike Snitzer
a79245b3e5 dm: split discard requests on target boundaries
Update __clone_and_map_discard to loop across all targets in a DM
device's table when it processes a discard bio.  If a discard crosses a
target boundary it must be split accordingly.

Update __issue_target_requests and __issue_target_request to allow a
cloned discard bio to have a custom start sector and size.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2010-08-12 04:14:24 +01:00
Mike Snitzer
56a67df766 dm: factor out max_io_len_target_boundary
Split max_io_len_target_boundary out of max_io_len so that the discard
support can make use of it without duplicating max_io_len code.

Avoiding max_io_len's split_io logic enables DM's discard support to
submit the entire discard request to a target.  But discards must still
be split on target boundaries.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2010-08-12 04:14:10 +01:00
Mike Snitzer
06a426cee9 dm: use common __issue_target_request for flush and discard support
Rename __flush_target to __issue_target_request now that it is used to
issue both flush and discard requests.

Introduce __issue_target_requests as a convenient wrapper to
__issue_target_request 'num_flush_requests' or 'num_discard_requests'
times per target.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2010-08-12 04:14:09 +01:00
Mike Snitzer
5ae89a8720 dm: linear support discard
Allow discards to be passed through to linear mappings if at least one
underlying device supports it.  Discards will be forwarded only to
devices that support them.

A target that supports discards should set num_discard_requests to
indicate how many times each discard request must be submitted to it.

Verify table's underlying devices support discards prior to setting the
associated DM device as capable of discards (via QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD).

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2010-08-12 04:14:08 +01:00
Mike Snitzer
57cba5d365 dm: rename map_info flush_request to target_request_nr
'target_request_nr' is a more generic name that reflects the fact that
it will be used for both flush and discard support.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2010-08-12 04:14:04 +01:00
Mike Snitzer
4a0b4ddf26 dm: do not initialise full request queue when bio based
Change bio-based mapped devices no longer to have a fully initialized
request_queue (request_fn, elevator, etc).  This means bio-based DM
devices no longer register elevator sysfs attributes ('iosched/' tree
or 'scheduler' other than "none").

In contrast, a request-based DM device will continue to have a full
request_queue and will register elevator sysfs attributes.  Therefore
a user can determine a DM device's type by checking if elevator sysfs
attributes exist.

First allocate a minimalist request_queue structure for a DM device
(needed for both bio and request-based DM).

Initialization of a full request_queue is deferred until it is known
that the DM device is request-based, at the end of the table load
sequence.

Factor DM device's request_queue initialization:
- common to both request-based and bio-based into dm_init_md_queue().
- specific to request-based into dm_init_request_based_queue().

The md->type_lock mutex is used to protect md->queue, in addition to
md->type, during table_load().

A DM device's first table_load will establish the immutable md->type.
But md->queue initialization, based on md->type, may fail at that time
(because blk_init_allocated_queue cannot allocate memory).  Therefore
any subsequent table_load must (re)try dm_setup_md_queue independently of
establishing md->type.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2010-08-12 04:14:02 +01:00
Mike Snitzer
a5664dad7e dm ioctl: make bio or request based device type immutable
Determine whether a mapped device is bio-based or request-based when
loading its first (inactive) table and don't allow that to be changed
later.

This patch performs different device initialisation in each of the two
cases.  (We don't think it's necessary to add code to support changing
between the two types.)

Allowed md->type transitions:
  DM_TYPE_NONE to DM_TYPE_BIO_BASED
  DM_TYPE_NONE to DM_TYPE_REQUEST_BASED

We now prevent table_load from replacing the inactive table with a
conflicting type of table even after an explicit table_clear.

Introduce 'type_lock' into the struct mapped_device to protect md->type
and to prepare for the next patch that will change the queue
initialization and allocate memory while md->type_lock is held.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c    |   15 +++++++++++++++
 drivers/md/dm.c          |   37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 drivers/md/dm.h          |    5 +++++
 include/linux/dm-ioctl.h |    4 ++--
 4 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
2010-08-12 04:14:01 +01:00
Mikulas Patocka
708e929513 dm: skip second flush on bio unsupported error
When processing barriers, skip the second flush if processing the bio
failed with -EOPNOTSUPP.  This can happen with discard+barrier requests.
If the device doesn't support discard, there would be two useless
SYNCHRONIZE CACHE commands.  The first dm_flush cannot be so easily
optimized out, so we leave it there.

Previously, -EOPNOTSUPP could be received in dec_pending only with empty
barriers and we ignored that error, assuming the device not supporting
cache flushes has cache always consistent.  With the addition of discard
barriers, this -EOPNOTSUPP can also be generated by discards and we
must record it in md->barrier_error for process_barrier.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2010-08-12 04:14:00 +01:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
3f77316de0 dm: separate device deletion from dm_put
This patch separates the device deletion code from dm_put()
to make sure the deletion happens in the process context.

By this patch, device deletion always occurs in an ioctl (process)
context and dm_put() can be called in interrupt context.
As a result, the request-based dm's bad dm_put() usage pointed out
by Mikulas below disappears.
    http://marc.info/?l=dm-devel&m=126699981019735&w=2

Without this patch, I confirmed there is a case to crash the system:
    dm_put() => dm_table_destroy() => vfree() => BUG_ON(in_interrupt())

Some more backgrounds and details:
In request-based dm, a device opener can remove a mapped_device
while the last request is still completing, because bios in the last
request complete first and then the device opener can close and remove
the mapped_device before the last request completes:
  CPU0                                          CPU1
  =================================================================
  <<INTERRUPT>>
  blk_end_request_all(clone_rq)
    blk_update_request(clone_rq)
      bio_endio(clone_bio) == end_clone_bio
        blk_update_request(orig_rq)
          bio_endio(orig_bio)
                                                <<I/O completed>>
                                                dm_blk_close()
                                                dev_remove()
                                                  dm_put(md)
                                                    <<Free md>>
   blk_finish_request(clone_rq)
     ....
     dm_end_request(clone_rq)
       free_rq_clone(clone_rq)
       blk_end_request_all(orig_rq)
       rq_completed(md)

So request-based dm used dm_get()/dm_put() to hold md for each I/O
until its request completion handling is fully done.
However, the final dm_put() can call the device deletion code which
must not be run in interrupt context and may cause kernel panic.

To solve the problem, this patch moves the device deletion code,
dm_destroy(), to predetermined places that is actually deleting
the mapped_device in ioctl (process) context, and changes dm_put()
just to decrement the reference count of the mapped_device.
By this change, dm_put() can be used in any context and the symmetric
model below is introduced:
    dm_create():  create a mapped_device
    dm_destroy(): destroy a mapped_device
    dm_get():     increment the reference count of a mapped_device
    dm_put():     decrement the reference count of a mapped_device

dm_destroy() waits for all references of the mapped_device to disappear,
then deletes the mapped_device.

dm_destroy() uses active waiting with msleep(1), since deleting
the mapped_device isn't performance-critical task.
And since at this point, nobody opens the mapped_device and no new
reference will be taken, the pending counts are just for racing
completing activity and will eventually decrease to zero.

For the unlikely case of the forced module unload, dm_destroy_immediate(),
which doesn't wait and forcibly deletes the mapped_device, is also
introduced and used in dm_hash_remove_all().  Otherwise, "rmmod -f"
may be stuck and never return.
And now, because the mapped_device is deleted at this point, subsequent
accesses to the mapped_device may cause NULL pointer references.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
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>
2010-08-12 04:13:56 +01:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
abdc568b05 dm: prevent access to md being deleted
This patch prevents access to mapped_device which is being deleted.

Currently, even after a mapped_device has been removed from the hash,
it could be accessed through idr_find() using minor number.
That could cause a race and NULL pointer reference below:
  CPU0                          CPU1
  ------------------------------------------------------------------
  dev_remove(param)
    down_write(_hash_lock)
    dm_lock_for_deletion(md)
      spin_lock(_minor_lock)
      set_bit(DMF_DELETING)
      spin_unlock(_minor_lock)
    __hash_remove(hc)
    up_write(_hash_lock)
                                dev_status(param)
                                  md = find_device(param)
                                         down_read(_hash_lock)
                                         __find_device_hash_cell(param)
                                           dm_get_md(param->dev)
                                             md = dm_find_md(dev)
                                                    spin_lock(_minor_lock)
                                                    md = idr_find(MINOR(dev))
                                                    spin_unlock(_minor_lock)
    dm_put(md)
      free_dev(md)
                                             dm_get(md)
                                         up_read(_hash_lock)
                                  __dev_status(md, param)
                                  dm_put(md)

This patch fixes such problems.

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2010-08-12 04:13:54 +01:00
Arnd Bergmann
6e9624b8ca block: push down BKL into .open and .release
The open and release block_device_operations are currently
called with the BKL held. In order to change that, we must
first make sure that all drivers that currently rely
on this have no regressions.

This blindly pushes the BKL into all .open and .release
operations for all block drivers to prepare for the
next step. The drivers can subsequently replace the BKL
with their own locks or remove it completely when it can
be shown that it is not needed.

The functions blkdev_get and blkdev_put are the only
remaining users of the big kernel lock in the block
layer, besides a few uses in the ioctl code, none
of which need to serialize with blkdev_{get,put}.

Most of these two functions is also under the protection
of bdev->bd_mutex, including the actual calls to
->open and ->release, and the common code does not
access any global data structures that need the BKL.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:25:34 +02:00
FUJITA Tomonori
00fff26539 block: remove q->prepare_flush_fn completely
This removes q->prepare_flush_fn completely (changes the
blk_queue_ordered API).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:24:15 +02:00
FUJITA Tomonori
144d6ed551 dm: stop using q->prepare_flush_fn
use REQ_FLUSH flag instead.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:24:14 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
7b6d91daee block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request
Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too.
This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem
down to the block driver.  There were two flags in the bio that were
missing in the requests:  BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD.  Also I've
renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them.

Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as
blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:20:39 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
33659ebbae block: remove wrappers for request type/flags
Remove all the trivial wrappers for the cmd_type and cmd_flags fields in
struct requests.  This allows much easier grepping for different request
types instead of unwinding through macros.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:17:56 +02:00
Peter Rajnoha
3abf85b5b5 dm ioctl: introduce flag indicating uevent was generated
Set a new DM_UEVENT_GENERATED_FLAG when returning from ioctls to
indicate that a uevent was actually generated.  This tells the userspace
caller that it may need to wait for the event to be processed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2010-03-06 02:32:31 +00:00
Mikulas Patocka
a97f925a32 dm: free dm_io before bio_endio not after
Free the dm_io structure before calling bio_endio() instead of after it,
to ensure that the io_pool containing it is not referenced after it is
freed.

This partially fixes a problem described here
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2010-February/msg00109.html

thread 1:
bio_endio(bio, io_error);
/* scheduling happens */
					thread 2:
					close the device
					remove the device
thread 1:
free_io(md, io);

Thread 2, when removing the device, sees non-empty md->io_pool (because the
io hasn't been freed by thread 1 yet) and may crash with BUG in mempool_free.
Thread 1 may also crash, when freeing into a nonexisting mempool.

To fix this we must make sure that bio_endio() is the last call and
the md structure is not accessed afterwards.

There is another bio_endio in process_barrier, but it is called from the thread
and the thread is destroyed prior to freeing the mempools, so this call is
not affected by the bug.

A similar bug exists with module unloads - the module may be unloaded
immediately after bio_endio - but that is more difficult to fix.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2010-03-06 02:32:29 +00:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
ecdb2e257a dm table: remove dm_get from dm_table_get_md
Remove the dm_get() in dm_table_get_md() because dm_table_get_md() could
be called from presuspend/postsuspend, which are called while
mapped_device is in DMF_FREEING state, where dm_get() is not allowed.

Justification for that is the lifetime of both objects: As far as the
current dm design/implementation, mapped_device is never freed while
targets are doing something, because dm core waits for targets to become
quiet in dm_put() using presuspend/postsuspend.  So targets should be
able to touch mapped_device without holding reference count of the
mapped_device, and we should allow targets to touch mapped_device even
if it is in DMF_FREEING state.

Backgrounds:
I'm trying to remove the multipath internal queue, since dm core now has
a generic queue for request-based dm.  In the patch-set, the multipath
target wants to request dm core to start/stop queue.  One of such
start/stop requests can happen during postsuspend() while the target
waits for pg-init to complete, because the target stops queue when
starting pg-init and tries to restart it when completing pg-init.  Since
queue belongs to mapped_device, it involves calling dm_table_get_md()
and dm_put().  On the other hand, postsuspend() is called in dm_put()
for mapped_device which is in DMF_FREEING state, and that triggers
BUG_ON(DMF_FREEING) in the 2nd dm_put().

I had tried to solve this problem by changing only multipath not to
touch mapped_device which is in DMF_FREEING state, but I couldn't and I
came up with a question why we need dm_get() in dm_table_get_md().

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>
2010-03-06 02:29:52 +00:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
9eef87da2a dm mpath: fix stall when requeueing io
This patch fixes the problem that system may stall if target's ->map_rq
returns DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE in map_request().
E.g. stall happens on 1 CPU box when a dm-mpath device with queue_if_no_path
     bounces between all-paths-down and paths-up on I/O load.

When target's ->map_rq returns DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE, map_request() requeues
the request and returns to dm_request_fn().  Then, dm_request_fn()
doesn't exit the I/O dispatching loop and continues processing
the requeued request again.
This map and requeue loop can be done with interrupt disabled,
so 1 CPU system can be stalled if this situation happens.

For example, commands below can stall my 1 CPU box within 1 minute or so:
  # dmsetup table mp
  mp: 0 2097152 multipath 1 queue_if_no_path 0 1 1 service-time 0 1 2 8:144 1 1
  # while true; do dd if=/dev/mapper/mp of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100; done &
  # while true; do \
  > dmsetup message mp 0 "fail_path 8:144" \
  > dmsetup suspend --noflush mp \
  > dmsetup resume mp \
  > dmsetup message mp 0 "reinstate_path 8:144" \
  > done

To fix the problem above, this patch changes dm_request_fn() to exit
the I/O dispatching loop once if a request is requeued in map_request().

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2010-02-16 18:43:01 +00:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
64dbce580d dm: export suspended state to targets
This patch adds the exported dm_suspended() function so that targets
can check whether or not they are suspended.

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10 23:52:27 +00:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
4f186f8bbf dm: rename dm_suspended to dm_suspended_md
This patch renames dm_suspended() to dm_suspended_md() and
keeps it internal to dm.
No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10 23:52:26 +00:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
4d4471cb5c dm: swap target postsuspend call and setting suspended flag
This patch moves DMF_SUSPENDED flag set before postsuspend.
No one should care about the ordering, because the flag set and
the postsuspend are protected by a single lock, md->suspend_lock,
and all strict flag-checkers take the lock.

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10 23:52:26 +00:00
Jun'ichi Nomura
6db4ccd635 dm: trace request based remapping
This patch adds a remapping trace to request-based dm.
BIO-based dm already has the equivalent tracepoint.

For example, under this dm stack (linear LV on multipath):
  # dmsetup ls --tree -o ascii
  vg-lv0 (253:1)
   `-mpath0 (253:0)
      |- (8:160)
      |- (66:80)
      |- (65:176)
      `- (65:160)

Trace of 'dd of=/dev/vg/lv0 bs=128k count=1 oflag=direct' looks like this:

without the patch:
  dd-6674  [000]   539.727384: block_bio_queue: 253,1 WS 0 + 256 [dd]
  dd-6674  [000]   539.727392: block_remap: 253,0 WS 384 + 256 <- (253,1) 0
  dd-6674  [000]   539.727394: block_bio_queue: 253,0 WS 384 + 256 [dd]
  dd-6674  [000]   539.727405: block_getrq: 253,0 WS 384 + 256 [dd]
  dd-6674  [000]   539.727409: block_plug: [dd]
  dd-6674  [000]   539.727410: block_rq_insert: 253,0 W 0 () 384 + 256 [dd]
  dd-6674  [000]   539.727416: block_rq_issue: 253,0 W 0 () 384 + 256 [dd]
  dd-6674  [000]   539.727426: block_rq_insert: 65,176 W 0 () 384 + 256 [dd]
  dd-6674  [000]   539.727427: block_rq_issue: 65,176 W 0 () 384 + 256 [dd]
  ...

and with the patch: (the line with '**' is the trace added by this patch)
  dd-6617  [002]   162.914301: block_bio_queue: 253,1 WS 0 + 256 [dd]
  dd-6617  [002]   162.914314: block_remap: 253,0 WS 384 + 256 <- (253,1) 0
  dd-6617  [002]   162.914316: block_bio_queue: 253,0 WS 384 + 256 [dd]
  dd-6617  [002]   162.914331: block_getrq: 253,0 WS 384 + 256 [dd]
  dd-6617  [002]   162.914335: block_plug: [dd]
  dd-6617  [002]   162.914337: block_rq_insert: 253,0 W 0 () 384 + 256 [dd]
  dd-6617  [002]   162.914347: block_rq_issue: 253,0 W 0 () 384 + 256 [dd]
**dd-6617  [002]   162.914356: block_rq_remap: 65,176 W 384 + 256 <- (253,0) 384
  dd-6617  [002]   162.914358: block_rq_insert: 65,176 W 0 () 384 + 256 [dd]
  dd-6617  [002]   162.914359: block_rq_issue: 65,176 W 0 () 384 + 256 [dd]
  ...

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10 23:52:25 +00:00
Alasdair G Kergon
042d2a9bcd dm: keep old table until after resume succeeded
When swapping a new table into place, retain the old table until
its replacement is in place.

An old check for an empty table is removed because this is enforced
in populate_table().

__unbind() becomes redundant when followed by __bind().

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10 23:52:24 +00:00
Alasdair G Kergon
a794015597 dm: bind new table before destroying old
When replacing a mapped device's table during a 'resume', delay the
destruction of the old table until the new one is successfully in place.

This will make it easier for a later patch to transfer internal state
information from the old table to the new one (something we do not currently
support) while giving us more options for reversion if a later part
of the operation fails.

Devices are always in the suspended state during dm_swap_table().
This patch reinforces the requirement that all I/O must have been
flushed from the table targets while in this state (including any in
workqueues).  In the case of 'noflush' suspending, unprocessed
I/O should have been 'pushed back' to the dm core prior to this point,
for resubmission after the new table is in place.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10 23:52:23 +00:00
Mike Anderson
432a212c0d dm: add dm_deleting_md function
Add dm_deleting_md to check whether or not a given mapped
device is currently being deleted.

Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10 23:52:20 +00:00
Alasdair G Kergon
7c6664114b dm: rename dm_get_table to dm_get_live_table
Rename dm_get_table to dm_get_live_table.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10 23:52:19 +00:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
d0bcb87865 dm: add request based barrier support
This patch adds barrier support for request-based dm.

CORE DESIGN

The design is basically same as bio-based dm, which emulates barrier
by mapping empty barrier bios before/after a barrier I/O.
But request-based dm has been using struct request_queue for I/O
queueing, so the block-layer's barrier mechanism can be used.

o Summary of the block-layer's behavior (which is depended by dm-core)
  Request-based dm uses QUEUE_ORDERED_DRAIN_FLUSH ordered mode for
  I/O barrier.  It means that when an I/O requiring barrier is found
  in the request_queue, the block-layer makes pre-flush request and
  post-flush request just before and just after the I/O respectively.

  After the ordered sequence starts, the block-layer waits for all
  in-flight I/Os to complete, then gives drivers the pre-flush request,
  the barrier I/O and the post-flush request one by one.
  It means that the request_queue is stopped automatically by
  the block-layer until drivers complete each sequence.

o dm-core
  For the barrier I/O, treats it as a normal I/O, so no additional
  code is needed.

  For the pre/post-flush request, flushes caches by the followings:
    1. Make the number of empty barrier requests required by target's
       num_flush_requests, and map them (dm_rq_barrier()).
    2. Waits for the mapped barriers to complete (dm_rq_barrier()).
       If error has occurred, save the error value to md->barrier_error
       (dm_end_request()).
       (*) Basically, the first reported error is taken.
           But -EOPNOTSUPP supersedes any error and DM_ENDIO_REQUEUE
           follows.
    3. Requeue the pre/post-flush request if the error value is
       DM_ENDIO_REQUEUE.  Otherwise, completes with the error value
       (dm_rq_barrier_work()).
  The pre/post-flush work above is done in the kernel thread (kdmflush)
  context, since memory allocation which might sleep is needed in
  dm_rq_barrier() but sleep is not allowed in dm_request_fn(), which is
  an irq-disabled context.
  Also, clones of the pre/post-flush request share an original, so
  such clones can't be completed using the softirq context.
  Instead, complete them in the context of underlying device drivers.
  It should be safe since there is no I/O dispatching during
  the completion of such clones.

  For suspend, the workqueue of kdmflush needs to be flushed after
  the request_queue has been stopped.  Otherwise, the next flush work
  can be kicked even after the suspend completes.

TARGET INTERFACE

No new interface is added.
Just use the existing num_flush_requests in struct target_type
as same as bio-based dm.

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>
2009-12-10 23:52:18 +00:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
980691e5f3 dm: move dm_end_request
This patch moves dm_end_request() to make the next patch more readable.
No functional change.

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>
2009-12-10 23:52:17 +00:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
11a68244e1 dm: refactor request based completion functions
This patch factors out the clone completion code, dm_done(),
from dm_softirq_done() in preparation for a subsequent patch.
No functional change.

dm_done() will be used in barrier completion, which can't use and
doesn't need softirq.  The softirq_done callback needs to get a clone
from an original request but it can't in the case of barrier, where
an original request is shared by multiple clones.  On the other hand,
the completion of barrier clones doesn't involve re-submitting requests,
which was the primary reason of the need for softirq.

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>
2009-12-10 23:52:17 +00:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
b4324feeae dm: use md pending for in flight IO counting
This patch changes the counter for the number of in_flight I/Os
to md->pending from q->in_flight in preparation for a later patch.
No functional change.

Request-based dm used q->in_flight to count the number of in-flight
clones assuming the counter is always incremented for an in-flight
original request and original:clone is 1:1 relationship.
However, it this no longer true for barrier requests.
So use md->pending to count the number of in-flight clones.

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>
2009-12-10 23:52:16 +00:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
9f518b27cf dm: simplify request based suspend
The semantics of bio-based dm were changed recently in the case of
suspend with "--nolockfs" but without "--noflush".
Before 2.6.30, I/Os submitted before the suspend invocation were always
flushed.  From 2.6.30 onwards, I/Os submitted before the suspend
invocation might not be flushed.  (For details, see
http://marc.info/?t=123994433400003&r=1&w=2)

This patch brings the behaviour of request-based dm into line with
bio-based dm, simplifying the code and preparing for a subsequent patch
that will wait for all in_flight I/Os to complete without stopping
request_queue and use dm_wait_for_completion() for it.

This change in semantics simplifies the suspend code as follows:
  o Suspend is implemented as stopping request_queue
    in request-based dm, and all I/Os are queued in the request_queue
    even after suspend is invoked.
  o In the old semantics, we had to track whether I/Os were
    queued before or after the suspend invocation, so a special
    barrier-like request called 'suspend marker' was introduced.
  o With the new semantics, we don't need to flush any I/O
    so we can remove the marker and the code related to the marker
    handling and I/O flushing.

After removing this codes, the suspend sequence is now:
  1. Flush all I/Os by lock_fs() if needed.
  2. Stop dispatching any I/O by stopping the request_queue.
  3. Wait for all in-flight I/Os to be completed or requeued.

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>
2009-12-10 23:52:16 +00:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
6facdaff22 dm: abstract clone_rq
This patch factors out the request cloning code in dm_prep_fn()
as clone_rq().  No functional change.

This patch is a preparation for a later patch in this series which needs to
make clones from an original barrier request.

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>
2009-12-10 23:52:15 +00:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
0888564393 dm: pass gfp_mask to alloc_rq_tio
This patch adds the gfp_mask argument to alloc_rq_tio().
No functional change.

This patch is a preparation for a later patch in this series which needs to
allocate tio (for barrier I/O) with different allocation flag (GFP_NOIO) from
the one in the normal I/O code path.

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>
2009-12-10 23:52:15 +00:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
598de40947 dm: use clone in map_request function
This patch changes the argument of map_request() to clone request
from original request.  No functional change.

This patch is a preparation for PATCH 9, which needs to use
map_request() for clones sharing an original barrier request.

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>
2009-12-10 23:52:14 +00:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
90abb8c4ce dm: abstract dm_in_flight function
This patch adds md_in_flight() to get the number of in_flight I/Os.
No functional change.

This patch is a preparation for a later patch in this series, which
changes I/O counter to md->pending from q->in_flight in request-based dm.

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>
2009-12-10 23:52:13 +00:00
Mikulas Patocka
952b355760 dm io: use slab for struct io
Allocate "struct io" from a slab.

This patch changes dm-io, so that "struct io" is allocated from a slab cache.
It used to be allocated with kmalloc. Allocating from a slab will be needed
for the next patch, because it requires a special alignment of "struct io"
and kmalloc cannot meet this alignment.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10 23:51:57 +00:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
f88fb98118 dm: dec_pending needs locking to save error value
Multiple instances of dec_pending() can run concurrently so a lock is
needed when it saves the first error code.

I have never experienced actual problem without locking and just found
this during code inspection while implementing the barrier support
patch for request-based dm.

This patch adds the locking.
I've done compile, boot and basic I/O testings.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
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>
2009-10-16 23:18:15 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac
03022c54b9 dm: add missing del_gendisk to alloc_dev error path
Add missing del_gendisk() to error path when creation of workqueue fails.
Otherwice there is a resource leak and following warning is shown:

WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:487 sysfs_add_one+0xc5/0x160()
sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/block/dm-0'

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-10-16 23:18:15 +01:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
316d315bff block: Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests v2
Commit a9327cac44 added seperate read
and write statistics of in_flight requests. And exported the number
of read and write requests in progress seperately through sysfs.

But  Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> reported getting strange
output from "iostat -kx 2". Global values for service time and
utilization were garbage. For interval values, utilization was always
100%, and service time is higher than normal.

So this was reverted by commit 0f78ab9899

The problem was in part_round_stats_single(), I missed the following:
        if (now == part->stamp)
                return;

-       if (part->in_flight) {
+       if (part_in_flight(part)) {
                __part_stat_add(cpu, part, time_in_queue,
                                part_in_flight(part) * (now - part->stamp));
                __part_stat_add(cpu, part, io_ticks, (now - part->stamp));

With this chunk included, the reported regression gets fixed.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>

--
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-06 20:16:55 +02:00
Jens Axboe
0f78ab9899 Revert "Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests"
This reverts commit a9327cac44.

Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> reports:

"with 2.6.32-rc1 I started getting the following strange output from
"iostat -kx 2":
Linux 2.6.31bisect (et2) 	04/10/2009 	_i686_	(2 CPU)

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
          10,70    0,00    3,16   15,75    0,00   70,38

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda              18,22     0,00    0,67    0,01    14,77     0,02
43,94     0,01   10,53 39043915,03 2629219,87
sdb              60,89     9,68   50,79    3,04  1724,43    50,52
65,95     0,70   13,06 488437,47 2629219,87

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           2,72    0,00    0,74    0,00    0,00   96,53

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
sdb               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           6,68    0,00    0,99    0,00    0,00   92,33

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
sdb               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           4,40    0,00    0,73    1,47    0,00   93,40

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
sdb               0,00     4,00    0,00    3,00     0,00    28,00
18,67     0,06   19,50 333,33 100,00

Global values for service time and utilization are garbage. For
interval values, utilization is always 100%, and service time is
higher than normal.

I bisected it down to:
[a9327cac44] Seperate read and write
statistics of in_flight requests
and verified that reverting just that commit indeed solves the issue
on 2.6.32-rc1."

So until this is debugged, revert the bad commit.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-04 21:04:38 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
83d5cde47d const: make block_device_operations const
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:25 -07:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
a9327cac44 Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests
Currently, there is a single in_flight counter measuring the number of
requests in the request_queue. But some monitoring tools would like to
know how many read requests and write requests are in progress. Split the
current in_flight counter into two seperate counters for read and write.

This information is exported as a sysfs attribute, as changing the
currently available stat files would break the existing tools.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-14 08:24:52 +02:00
Jens Axboe
1f98a13f62 bio: first step in sanitizing the bio->bi_rw flag testing
Get rid of any functions that test for these bits and make callers
use bio_rw_flagged() directly. Then it is at least directly apparent
what variable and flag they check.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:31 +02:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
a77e28c7e1 dm multipath: fix oops when request based io fails when no paths
The patch posted at http://marc.info/?l=dm-devel&m=124539787228784&w=2
which was merged into cec47e3d4a ("dm:
prepare for request based option") introduced a regression in
request-based dm.

If map_request() calls dm_kill_unmapped_request() to complete a cloned
bio without dispatching it, clone->bio is still set when
dm_end_request() is called and the BUG_ON(clone->bio) is incorrect.

The patch fixes this bug by freeing bio in dm_end_request() if the clone
has bio.  I've redone my tests to cover all I/O paths and confirmed
there's no other regression.

Here is the oops I hit in request-based dm when I do I/O to a multipath
device which doesn't have any active path nor queue_if_no_path setting:

------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at /root/2.6.31-rc4.rqdm/drivers/md/dm.c:828!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cache/index2/shared_cpu_map
CPU 1
Modules linked in: autofs4 sunrpc cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_service_time dm_multipath scsi_dh dm_mod video output sbs sbshc battery ac sg sr_mod e1000e button cdrom serio_raw rtc_cmos rtc_core rtc_lib piix lpfc scsi_transport_fc ata_piix libata megaraid_sas sd_mod scsi_mod crc_t10dif ext3 jbd uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd [last unloaded: microcode]
Pid: 7, comm: ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted 2.6.31-rc4.rqdm #1 Express5800/120Lj [N8100-1417]
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa023629d>]  [<ffffffffa023629d>] dm_softirq_done+0xbd/0x100 [dm_mod]
RSP: 0018:ffff8800280a1f08  EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: ffffffffa02544e0 RBX: ffff8802aa1111d0 RCX: ffff8802aa1111e0
RDX: ffff8802ab913e70 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8802ab913e70
RBP: ffff8800280a1f28 R08: ffffc90005457040 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000fffffffb
R13: ffff8802ab913e88 R14: ffff8802ab9c1438 R15: 0000000000000100
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88002809e000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000003d54a98640 CR3: 000000029f0a1000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process ksoftirqd/1 (pid: 7, threadinfo ffff8802ae50e000, task ffff8802ae4f8040)
Stack:
 ffff8800280a1f38 0000000000000020 ffffffff814f30a0 0000000000000004
<0> ffff8800280a1f58 ffffffff8116b245 ffff8800280a1f38 ffff8800280a1f38
<0> ffff8800280a1f58 0000000000000001 ffff8800280a1fa8 ffffffff810477bc
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 [<ffffffff8116b245>] blk_done_softirq+0x75/0x90
 [<ffffffff810477bc>] __do_softirq+0xcc/0x210
 [<ffffffff81047170>] ? ksoftirqd+0x0/0x110
 [<ffffffff8100ce7c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x50
 <EOI>
 [<ffffffff8100e785>] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0
 [<ffffffff81047170>] ? ksoftirqd+0x0/0x110
 [<ffffffff810471e0>] ksoftirqd+0x70/0x110
 [<ffffffff81059559>] kthread+0x99/0xb0
 [<ffffffff8100cd7a>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
 [<ffffffff8100c73c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
 [<ffffffff810594c0>] ? kthread+0x0/0xb0
 [<ffffffff8100cd70>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
Code: 44 89 e6 48 89 df e8 23 fb f2 e0 be 01 00 00 00 4c 89 f7 e8 f6 fd ff ff 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e c9 c3 4c 89 ef e8 85 fe ff ff eb ed <0f> 0b eb fe 41 8b 85 dc 00 00 00 48 83 bb 10 01 00 00 00 89 83
RIP  [<ffffffffa023629d>] dm_softirq_done+0xbd/0x100 [dm_mod]
 RSP <ffff8800280a1f08>
---[ end trace 16af0a1d8542da55 ]---

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>
2009-09-04 20:40:16 +01:00
Mike Snitzer
a732c207d1 dm: remove queue next_ordered workaround for barriers
This patch removes DM's bio-based vs request-based conditional setting
of next_ordered.  For bio-based DM the next_ordered check is no longer a
concern (as that check is now in the __make_request path).  For
request-based DM the default of QUEUE_ORDERED_NONE is now appropriate.

bio-based DM was changed to work-around the previously misplaced
next_ordered check with this commit:
99360b4c18

request-based DM does not yet support barriers but reacted to the above
bio-based DM change with this commit:
5d67aa2366

The above changes are no longer needed given Neil Brown's recent fix to
put the next_ordered check in the __make_request path:
db64f680ba

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-07-23 20:30:40 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
7878cba9f0 block: Create bip slabs with embedded integrity vectors
This patch restores stacking ability to the block layer integrity
infrastructure by creating a set of dedicated bip slabs.  Each bip slab
has an embedded bio_vec array at the end.  This cuts down on memory
allocations and also simplifies the code compared to the original bvec
version.  Only the largest bip slab is backed by a mempool.  The pool is
contained in the bio_set so stacking drivers can ensure forward
progress.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl.(none)>
2009-07-01 10:56:25 +02:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
523d9297d4 dm: disable interrupt when taking map_lock
This patch disables interrupt when taking map_lock to avoid
lockdep warnings in request-based dm.

request-based dm takes map_lock after taking queue_lock with
disabling interrupt:
  spin_lock_irqsave(queue_lock)
  q->request_fn() == dm_request_fn()
    => dm_get_table()
         => read_lock(map_lock)
while queue_lock could be (but isn't) taken in interrupt context.

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-06-22 10:12:37 +01:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
5d67aa2366 dm: do not set QUEUE_ORDERED_DRAIN if request based
Request-based dm doesn't have barrier support yet.
So we need to set QUEUE_ORDERED_DRAIN only for bio-based dm.
Since the device type is decided at the first table loading time,
the flag set is deferred until then.

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-06-22 10:12:36 +01:00
Kiyoshi Ueda
e6ee8c0b76 dm: enable request based option
This patch enables request-based dm.

o Request-based dm and bio-based dm coexist, since there are
  some target drivers which are more fitting to bio-based dm.
  Also, there are other bio-based devices in the kernel
  (e.g. md, loop).
  Since bio-based device can't receive struct request,
  there are some limitations on device stacking between
  bio-based and request-based.

                     type of underlying device
                   bio-based      request-based
   ----------------------------------------------
    bio-based         OK                OK
    request-based     --                OK

  The device type is recognized by the queue flag in the kernel,
  so dm follows that.

o The type of a dm device is decided at the first table binding time.
  Once the type of a dm device is decided, the type can't be changed.

o Mempool allocations are deferred to at the table loading time, since
  mempools for request-based dm are different from those for bio-based
  dm and needed mempool type is fixed by the type of table.

o Currently, request-based dm supports only tables that have a single
  target.  To support multiple targets, we need to support request
  splitting or prevent bio/request from spanning multiple targets.
  The former needs lots of changes in the block layer, and the latter
  needs that all target drivers support merge() function.
  Both will take a time.

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 10:12:36 +01:00