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Joe Thornber
b29d4986d0 dm cache: significant rework to leverage dm-bio-prison-v2
The cache policy interfaces have been updated to work well with the new
bio-prison v2 interface's ability to queue work immediately (promotion,
demotion, etc) -- overriding benefit being reduced latency on processing
IO through the cache.  Previously such work would be left for the DM
cache core to queue on various lists and then process in batches later
-- this caused a serious delay in latency for IO driven by the cache.

The background tracker code was factored out so that all cache policies
can make use of it.

Also, the "cleaner" policy has been removed and is now a variant of the
smq policy that simply disallows migrations.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2017-03-07 13:28:31 -05:00
Joe Thornber
4e781b498e dm cache: speed up writing of the hint array
It's far quicker to always delete the hint array and recreate with
dm_array_new() because we avoid the copying caused by mutation.

Also simplifies the policy interface, replacing the walk_hints() with
the simpler get_hint().

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2016-09-22 11:15:02 -04:00
Joe Thornber
fba10109a4 dm cache: age and write back cache entries even without active IO
The policy tick() method is normally called from interrupt context.
Both the mq and smq policies do some bottom half work for the tick
method in their map functions.  However if no IO is going through the
cache, then that bottom half work doesn't occur.  With these policies
this means recently hit entries do not age and do not get written
back as early as we'd like.

Fix this by introducing a new 'can_block' parameter to the tick()
method.  When this is set the bottom half work occurs immediately.
'can_block' is set when the tick method is called every second by the
core target (not in interrupt context).

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-11 17:13:01 -04:00
Joe Thornber
028ae9f76f dm cache: add fail io mode and needs_check flag
If a cache metadata operation fails (e.g. transaction commit) the
cache's metadata device will abort the current transaction, set a new
needs_check flag, and the cache will transition to "read-only" mode.  If
aborting the transaction or setting the needs_check flag fails the cache
will transition to "fail-io" mode.

Once needs_check is set the cache device will not be allowed to
activate.  Activation requires write access to metadata.  Future work is
needed to add proper support for running the cache in read-only mode.

Once in fail-io mode the cache will report a status of "Fail".

Also, add commit() wrapper that will disallow commits if in read_only or
fail mode.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-11 17:13:00 -04:00
Joe Thornber
451b9e0071 dm cache: pull out some bitset utility functions for reuse
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-05-29 14:19:05 -04:00
Joe Thornber
20f6814b94 dm cache: pass a new 'critical' flag to the policies when requesting writeback work
We only allow non critical writeback if the origin is idle.  It is up
to the policy to decide what writeback work is critical.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-05-29 14:19:04 -04:00
Joe Thornber
fb4100ae7f dm cache: fix race when issuing a POLICY_REPLACE operation
There is a race between a policy deciding to replace a cache entry,
the core target writing back any dirty data from this block, and other
IO threads doing IO to the same block.

This sort of problem is avoided most of the time by the core target
grabbing a bio prison cell before making the request to the policy.
But for a demotion the core target doesn't know which block will be
demoted, so can't do this in advance.

Fix this demotion race by introducing a callback to the policy interface
that allows the policy to grab the cell on behalf of the core target.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2015-05-29 14:19:03 -04:00
Joe Thornber
532906aa7f dm cache: add remove_cblock method to policy interface
Implement policy_remove_cblock() and add remove_cblock method to the mq
policy.  These methods will be used by the following cache block
invalidation patch which adds the 'invalidate_cblocks' message to the
cache core.

Also, update some comments in dm-cache-policy.h

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2013-11-11 11:37:50 -05:00
Joe Thornber
3351937e4a dm cache policy: remove return from void policy_remove_mapping
No need to return from a void function.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2013-11-09 18:20:16 -05:00
Mike Snitzer
4e7f506f64 dm cache: policy change version from string to integer set
Separate dm cache policy version string into 3 unsigned numbers
corresponding to major, minor and patchlevel and store them at the end
of the on-disk metadata so we know which version of the policy generated
the hints in case a future version wants to use them differently.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-03-20 17:21:27 +00:00
Joe Thornber
c6b4fcbad0 dm: add cache target
Add a target that allows a fast device such as an SSD to be used as a
cache for a slower device such as a disk.

A plug-in architecture was chosen so that the decisions about which data
to migrate and when are delegated to interchangeable tunable policy
modules.  The first general purpose module we have developed, called
"mq" (multiqueue), follows in the next patch.  Other modules are
under development.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-03-01 22:45:51 +00:00