linux/drivers/md/linear.c, branch v3.0.86

block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool

2011-03-17T10:11:05Z

MD and DM create a new bio_set for every metadevice. Each bio_set has an integrity mempool attached regardless of whether the metadevice is capable of passing integrity metadata. This is a waste of memory. Instead we defer the allocation decision to MD and DM since we know at metadevice creation time whether integrity passthrough is needed or not. Automatic integrity mempool allocation can then be removed from bioset_create() and we make an explicit integrity allocation for the fs_bio_set. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac Acked-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/stack-plug' into for-2.6.39/core

2011-03-10T07:58:35Z

Conflicts: block/blk-core.c block/blk-flush.c drivers/md/raid1.c drivers/md/raid10.c drivers/md/raid5.c fs/nilfs2/btnode.c fs/nilfs2/mdt.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove per-queue plugging

2011-03-10T07:52:07Z

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

md: avoid spinlock problem in blk_throtl_exit

2011-02-21T07:25:57Z

blk_throtl_exit assumes that ->queue_lock still exists, so make sure that it does. To do this, we stop redirecting ->queue_lock to conf->device_lock and leave it pointing where it is initialised - __queue_lock. As the blk_plug functions check the ->queue_lock is held, we now take that spin_lock explicitly around the plug functions. We don't need the locking, just the warning removal. This is needed for any kernel with the blk_throtl code, which is which is 2.6.37 and later. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: implment REQ_FLUSH/FUA support

2010-09-10T10:35:38Z

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 Reviewed-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request

2010-08-07T16:20:39Z

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 Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge commit '3ff195b011d7decf501a4d55aeed312731094796' into for-linus

2010-05-21T22:31:36Z

Conflicts: drivers/md/md.c - Resolved conflict in md_update_sb - Added extra 'NULL' arg to new instance of sysfs_get_dirent. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md/linear: standardise all printk messages

2010-05-18T05:27:59Z

md/linear:mdname: Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: pass mddev to make_request functions rather than request_queue

2010-05-18T05:27:55Z

We used to pass the personality make_request function direct to the block layer so the first argument had to be a queue. But now we have the intermediary md_make_request so it makes at lot more sense to pass a struct mddev_s. It makes it possible to have an mddev without its own queue too. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: move io accounting out of personalities into md_make_request

2010-05-18T05:27:52Z

While I generally prefer letting personalities do as much as possible, given that we have a central md_make_request anyway we may as well use it to simplify code. Also this centralises knowledge of ->gendisk which will help later. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown