In r5cache recovery, the journal device is scanned page by page.
Currently, we use sync_page_io() to read journal device. This is
not efficient when we have to recovery many stripes from the journal.
To improve the speed of recovery, this patch introduces a read ahead
page pool (ra_pool) to recovery_ctx. With ra_pool, multiple consecutive
pages are read in one IO. Then the recovery code read the journal from
ra_pool.
With ra_pool, r5l_recovery_ctx has become much bigger. Therefore,
r5l_recovery_log() is refactored so r5l_recovery_ctx is not using
stack space.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Bump the flush stripe batch size to 2048. For my 12 disks raid
array, the stripes takes:
12 * 4k * 2048 = 96MB
This is still quite small. A hardware raid card generally has 1GB size,
which we suggest the raid5-cache has similar cache size.
The advantage of a big batch size is we can dispatch a lot of IO in the
same time, then we can do some scheduling to make better IO pattern.
Last patch prioritizes stripes, so we don't worry about a big flush
stripe batch will starve normal stripes.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
stripes which are being reclaimed are still accounted into cached
stripes. The reclaim takes time. r5c_do_reclaim isn't aware of the
stripes and does unnecessary stripe reclaim. In practice, I saw one
stripe is reclaimed one time. This will cause bad IO pattern. Fixing
this by excluding the reclaing stripes in the check.
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
When log space is tight, we try to reclaim stripes from log head. There
are stripes which can't be reclaimed right now if some conditions are
met. We skip such stripes but accidentally count them, which might cause
no stripes are claimed. Fixing this by only counting valid stripes.
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
It is important to be able to flush all stripes in raid5-cache.
Therefore, we need reserve some space on the journal device for
these flushes. If flush operation includes pending writes to the
stripe, we need to reserve (conf->raid_disk + 1) pages per stripe
for the flush out. This reduces the efficiency of journal space.
If we exclude these pending writes from flush operation, we only
need (conf->max_degraded + 1) pages per stripe.
With this patch, when log space is critical (R5C_LOG_CRITICAL=1),
pending writes will be excluded from stripe flush out. Therefore,
we can reduce reserved space for flush out and thus improve journal
device efficiency.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Chunk aligned read significantly reduces CPU usage of raid456.
However, it is not safe to fully bypass the write back cache.
This patch enables chunk aligned read with write back cache.
For chunk aligned read, we track stripes in write back cache at
a bigger granularity, "big_stripe". Each chunk may contain more
than one stripe (for example, a 256kB chunk contains 64 4kB-page,
so this chunk contain 64 stripes). For chunk_aligned_read, these
stripes are grouped into one big_stripe, so we only need one lookup
for the whole chunk.
For each big_stripe, struct big_stripe_info tracks how many stripes
of this big_stripe are in the write back cache. We count how many
stripes of this big_stripe are in the write back cache. These
counters are tracked in a radix tree (big_stripe_tree).
r5c_tree_index() is used to calculate keys for the radix tree.
chunk_aligned_read() calls r5c_big_stripe_cached() to look up
big_stripe of each chunk in the tree. If this big_stripe is in the
tree, chunk_aligned_read() aborts. This look up is protected by
rcu_read_lock().
It is necessary to remember whether a stripe is counted in
big_stripe_tree. Instead of adding new flag, we reuses existing flags:
STRIPE_R5C_PARTIAL_STRIPE and STRIPE_R5C_FULL_STRIPE. If either of these
two flags are set, the stripe is counted in big_stripe_tree. This
requires moving set_bit(STRIPE_R5C_PARTIAL_STRIPE) to
r5c_try_caching_write(); and moving clear_bit of
STRIPE_R5C_PARTIAL_STRIPE and STRIPE_R5C_FULL_STRIPE to
r5c_finish_stripe_write_out().
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
write-back cache in degraded mode introduces corner cases to the array.
Although we try to cover all these corner cases, it is safer to just
disable write-back cache when the array is in degraded mode.
In this patch, we disable writeback cache for degraded mode:
1. On device failure, if the array enters degraded mode, raid5_error()
will submit async job r5c_disable_writeback_async to disable
writeback;
2. In r5c_journal_mode_store(), it is invalid to enable writeback in
degraded mode;
3. In r5c_try_caching_write(), stripes with s->failed>0 will be handled
in write-through mode.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
For safer operation, all arrays start in write-through mode, which has been
better tested and is more mature. And actually the write-through/write-mode
isn't persistent after array restarted, so we always start array in
write-through mode. However, if recovery found data-only stripes before the
shutdown (from previous write-back mode), it is not safe to start the array in
write-through mode, as write-through mode can not handle stripes with data in
write-back cache. To solve this problem, we flush all data-only stripes in
r5l_recovery_log(). When r5l_recovery_log() returns, the array starts with
empty cache in write-through mode.
This logic is implemented in r5c_recovery_flush_data_only_stripes():
1. enable write back cache
2. flush all stripes
3. wake up conf->mddev->thread
4. wait for all stripes get flushed (reuse wait_for_quiescent)
5. disable write back cache
The wait in 4 will be waked up in release_inactive_stripe_list()
when conf->active_stripes reaches 0.
It is safe to wake up mddev->thread here because all the resource
required for the thread has been initialized.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
With write back cache, we use orig_page to do prexor. This patch
makes sure we read data into orig_page for it.
Flag R5_OrigPageUPTDODATE is added to show whether orig_page
has the latest data from raid disk.
We introduce a helper function uptodate_for_rmw() to simplify
the a couple conditions in handle_stripe_dirtying().
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Trivial fix to spelling mistake "recoverying" to "recovering" in
pr_dbg message.
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
r5l_load_log() calls functions that requires a proper conf->log,
for example, r5c_is_writeback(). Therefore, we should set
conf->log before calling r5l_load_log(). If r5l_load_log() fails,
conf->log is set back to NULL.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
We only need to update sh->log_start at the end of recovery,
which is r5c_recovery_rewrite_data_only_stripes(), so it is not
necessary to set it before that. In this patch, log_start is
removed from r5c_recovery_alloc_stripe().
After updating all sh->log_start, rewrite_data_only_stripes()
also updates log->next_checkpoints to the last sh->log_start.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
The write-through mode has been returned in front of the function,
do not need to do it again.
Signed-off-by: JackieLiu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
"This is the main block pull request this series. Contrary to previous
release, I've kept the core and driver changes in the same branch. We
always ended up having dependencies between the two for obvious
reasons, so makes more sense to keep them together. That said, I'll
probably try and keep more topical branches going forward, especially
for cycles that end up being as busy as this one.
The major parts of this pull request is:
- Improved support for O_DIRECT on block devices, with a small
private implementation instead of using the pig that is
fs/direct-io.c. From Christoph.
- Request completion tracking in a scalable fashion. This is utilized
by two components in this pull, the new hybrid polling and the
writeback queue throttling code.
- Improved support for polling with O_DIRECT, adding a hybrid mode
that combines pure polling with an initial sleep. From me.
- Support for automatic throttling of writeback queues on the block
side. This uses feedback from the device completion latencies to
scale the queue on the block side up or down. From me.
- Support from SMR drives in the block layer and for SD. From Hannes
and Shaun.
- Multi-connection support for nbd. From Josef.
- Cleanup of request and bio flags, so we have a clear split between
which are bio (or rq) private, and which ones are shared. From
Christoph.
- A set of patches from Bart, that improve how we handle queue
stopping and starting in blk-mq.
- Support for WRITE_ZEROES from Chaitanya.
- Lightnvm updates from Javier/Matias.
- Supoort for FC for the nvme-over-fabrics code. From James Smart.
- A bunch of fixes from a whole slew of people, too many to name
here"
* 'for-4.10/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (182 commits)
blk-stat: fix a few cases of missing batch flushing
blk-flush: run the queue when inserting blk-mq flush
elevator: make the rqhash helpers exported
blk-mq: abstract out blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() helper
blk-mq: add blk_mq_start_stopped_hw_queue()
block: improve handling of the magic discard payload
blk-wbt: don't throttle discard or write zeroes
nbd: use dev_err_ratelimited in io path
nbd: reset the setup task for NBD_CLEAR_SOCK
nvme-fabrics: Add FC LLDD loopback driver to test FC-NVME
nvme-fabrics: Add target support for FC transport
nvme-fabrics: Add host support for FC transport
nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport LLDD api definitions
nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport FC-NVME definitions
nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport error codes to nvme.h
Add type 0x28 NVME type code to scsi fc headers
nvme-fabrics: patch target code in prep for FC transport support
nvme-fabrics: set sqe.command_id in core not transports
parser: add u64 number parser
nvme-rdma: align to generic ib_event logging helper
...
The mddev->flags are used for different purposes. There are a lot of
places we check/change the flags without masking unrelated flags, we
could check/change unrelated flags. These usage are most for superblock
write, so spearate superblock related flags. This should make the code
clearer and also fix real bugs.
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Currently, we increase journal entry seq by 10 after recovery.
However, this is not sufficient in the following case.
After crash the journal looks like
| seq+0 | +1 | +2 | +3 | +4 | +5 | +6 | +7 | ... | +11 | +12 |
If +1 is not valid, we dropped all entries from +1 to +12; and
write seq+10:
| seq+0 | +10 | +2 | +3 | +4 | +5 | +6 | +7 | ... | +11 | +12 |
However, if we write a big journal entry with seq+11, it will
connect with some stale journal entry:
| seq+0 | +10 | +11 | +12 |
To reduce the risk of this issue, we increase seq by 10000 instead.
Shaohua: use 10000 instead of 1000. The risk should be very unlikely. The total
stripe cache size is less than 2k typically, and several stripes can fit into
one meta data block. So the total inflight meta data blocks would be quite
small, which means the the total sequence number used should be quite small.
The 10000 sequence number increase should be far more than safe.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
r5l_recovery_create_empty_meta_block() creates crc for the empty
metablock. After the metablock is updated, we need clear the
checksum before recalculate it.
Shaohua: moved checksum calculation out of
r5l_recovery_create_empty_meta_block. We should calculate it after all fields
are updated.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
When create the super-block information, We do not need to do this
recovery stage, only need to initialize some variables.
Signed-off-by: JackieLiu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
We should update log state after we did a log recovery, current completion
may get wrong log state since log->log_start wasn't initalized until we
called r5l_recovery_log.
At log recovery stage, no lock needed as there is no race conditon.
next_checkpoint field will be initialized in r5l_recovery_log too.
Signed-off-by: Zhengyuan Liu <liuzhengyuan@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
When recovery is complete, we write an empty block and record his
position first, then make the data-only stripes rewritten done,
the location of the empty block as the last checkpoint position
to write into the super block. And we should update last_checkpoint
to this empty block position.
------------------------------------------------------------------
| old log | empty block | data only stripes | invalid log |
------------------------------------------------------------------
^ ^ ^
| |- log->last_checkpoint |- log->log_start
| |- log->last_cp_seq |- log->next_checkpoint
|- log->seq=n |- log->seq=10+n
At the same time, if there is no data-only stripes, this scene may appear,
| meta1 | meta2 | meta3 |
meta 1 is valid, meta 2 is invalid. meta 3 could be valid. so we should
The solution is we create a new meta in meta2 with its seq == meta1's
seq + 10 and let superblock points to meta2.
Signed-off-by: JackieLiu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Zhengyuan Liu <liuzhengyuan@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
With writeback cache, we define log space critical as
free_space < 2 * reclaim_required_space
So the deassert of R5C_LOG_CRITICAL could happen when
1. free_space increases
2. reclaim_required_space decreases
Currently, run_no_space_stripes() is called when 1 happens, but
not (always) when 2 happens.
With this patch, run_no_space_stripes() is call when
R5C_LOG_CRITICAL is cleared.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
R5c_make_stripe_write_out has set this flag, do not need to set again.
Signed-off-by: JackieLiu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
If we released the 'stripe_head' in r5c_recovery_flush_log,
ctx->cached_list will both release the data-parity stripes and
data-only stripes, which will become empty.
And we also need to use the data-only stripes in
r5c_recovery_rewrite_data_only_stripes, so we should wait util rewrite
data-only stripes is done before releasing them.
Reviewed-by: Zhengyuan Liu <liuzhengyuan@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: JackieLiu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
'write_pos' must be protected with 'r5l_ring_add', or it may overflow
Signed-off-by: JackieLiu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
The function parameter 'recovery_list' is not used in
body, we can delete it
Signed-off-by: JackieLiu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
r5c_recovery_load_one_stripe should not set STRIPE_R5C_PARTIAL_STRIPE flag,as
the data-only stripe may be STRIPE_R5C_FULL_STRIPE stripe. The state machine
would release the stripe later and add it into neither r5c_cached_full_stripes
list or r5c_cached_partial_stripes list and set correct flag.
Reviewed-by: JackieLiu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Zhengyuan Liu <liuzhengyuan@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
New stripe that was just allocated has no STRIPE_R5C_CACHING state too,
add this check condition could avoid unnecessary replaying for empty stripe.
r5l_recovery_replay_one_stripe would reset stripe for any case, delete it
to make code more clean.
Signed-off-by: Zhengyuan Liu <liuzhengyuan@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
We need to re-enable the IRQs here before returning.
Fixes: a39f7afde3 ("md/r5cache: write-out phase and reclaim support")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
RMW of r5c write back cache uses an extra page to store old data for
prexor. handle_stripe_dirtying() allocates this page by calling
alloc_page(). However, alloc_page() may fail.
To handle alloc_page() failures, this patch adds an extra page to
disk_info. When alloc_page fails, handle_stripe() trys to use these
pages. When these pages are used by other stripe (R5C_EXTRA_PAGE_IN_USE),
the stripe is added to delayed_list.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
There is mechanism to suspend a kernel thread. Use it instead of playing
create/destroy game.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Some drivers often use external bvec table, so introduce
this helper for this case. It is always safe to access the
bio->bi_io_vec in this way for this case.
After converting to this usage, it will becomes a bit easier
to evaluate the remaining direct access to bio->bi_io_vec,
so it can help to prepare for the following multipage bvec
support.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Fixed up the new O_DIRECT cases.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
With raid5 cache, we committing data from journal device. When
there is flush request, we need to flush journal device's cache.
This was not needed in raid5 journal, because we will flush the
journal before committing data to raid disks.
This is similar to FUA, except that we also need flush journal for
FUA. Otherwise, corruptions in earlier meta data will stop recovery
from reaching FUA data.
slightly changed the code by Shaohua
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
1. In previous patch, we:
- add new data to r5l_recovery_ctx
- add new functions to recovery write-back cache
The new functions are not used in this patch, so this patch does not
change the behavior of recovery.
2. In this patchpatch, we:
- modify main recovery procedure r5l_recovery_log() to call new
functions
- remove old functions
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Recovery of write-back cache has different logic to write-through only
cache. Specifically, for write-back cache, the recovery need to scan
through all active journal entries before flushing data out. Therefore,
large portion of the recovery logic is rewritten here.
To make the diffs cleaner, we split the rewrite as follows:
1. In this patch, we:
- add new data to r5l_recovery_ctx
- add new functions to recovery write-back cache
The new functions are not used in this patch, so this patch does not
change the behavior of recovery.
2. In next patch, we:
- modify main recovery procedure r5l_recovery_log() to call new
functions
- remove old functions
With cache feature, there are 2 different scenarios of recovery:
1. Data-Parity stripe: a stripe with complete parity in journal.
2. Data-Only stripe: a stripe with only data in journal (or partial
parity).
The code differentiate Data-Parity stripe from Data-Only stripe with
flag STRIPE_R5C_CACHING.
For Data-Parity stripes, we use the same procedure as raid5 journal,
where all the data and parity are replayed to the RAID devices.
For Data-Only strips, we need to finish complete calculate parity and
finish the full reconstruct write or RMW write. For simplicity, in
the recovery, we load the stripe to stripe cache. Once the array is
started, the stripe cache state machine will handle these stripes
through normal write path.
r5c_recovery_flush_log contains the main procedure of recovery. The
recovery code first scans through the journal and loads data to
stripe cache. The code keeps tracks of all these stripes in a list
(use sh->lru and ctx->cached_list), stripes in the list are
organized in the order of its first appearance on the journal.
During the scan, the recovery code assesses each stripe as
Data-Parity or Data-Only.
During scan, the array may run out of stripe cache. In these cases,
the recovery code will also call raid5_set_cache_size to increase
stripe cache size. If the array still runs out of stripe cache
because there isn't enough memory, the array will not assemble.
At the end of scan, the recovery code replays all Data-Parity
stripes, and sets proper states for Data-Only stripes. The recovery
code also increases seq number by 10 and rewrites all Data-Only
stripes to journal. This is to avoid confusion after repeated
crashes. More details is explained in raid5-cache.c before
r5c_recovery_rewrite_data_only_stripes().
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
1. rename r5l_read_meta_block() as r5l_recovery_read_meta_block();
2. pull the code that initialize r5l_meta_block from
r5l_log_write_empty_meta_block() to a separate function
r5l_recovery_create_empty_meta_block(), so that we can reuse this
piece of code.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
With write cache, journal_mode is the knob to switch between
write-back and write-through.
Below is an example:
root@virt-test:~/# cat /sys/block/md0/md/journal_mode
[write-through] write-back
root@virt-test:~/# echo write-back > /sys/block/md0/md/journal_mode
root@virt-test:~/# cat /sys/block/md0/md/journal_mode
write-through [write-back]
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
There are two limited resources, stripe cache and journal disk space.
For better performance, we priotize reclaim of full stripe writes.
To free up more journal space, we free earliest data on the journal.
In current implementation, reclaim happens when:
1. Periodically (every R5C_RECLAIM_WAKEUP_INTERVAL, 30 seconds) reclaim
if there is no reclaim in the past 5 seconds.
2. when there are R5C_FULL_STRIPE_FLUSH_BATCH (256) cached full stripes,
or cached stripes is enough for a full stripe (chunk size / 4k)
(r5c_check_cached_full_stripe)
3. when there is pressure on stripe cache (r5c_check_stripe_cache_usage)
4. when there is pressure on journal space (r5l_write_stripe, r5c_cache_data)
r5c_do_reclaim() contains new logic of reclaim.
For stripe cache:
When stripe cache pressure is high (more than 3/4 stripes are cached,
or there is empty inactive lists), flush all full stripe. If fewer
than R5C_RECLAIM_STRIPE_GROUP (NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS * 2) full stripes
are flushed, flush some paritial stripes. When stripe cache pressure
is moderate (1/2 to 3/4 of stripes are cached), flush all full stripes.
For log space:
To avoid deadlock due to log space, we need to reserve enough space
to flush cached data. The size of required log space depends on total
number of cached stripes (stripe_in_journal_count). In current
implementation, the writing-out phase automatically include pending
data writes with parity writes (similar to write through case).
Therefore, we need up to (conf->raid_disks + 1) pages for each cached
stripe (1 page for meta data, raid_disks pages for all data and
parity). r5c_log_required_to_flush_cache() calculates log space
required to flush cache. In the following, we refer to the space
calculated by r5c_log_required_to_flush_cache() as
reclaim_required_space.
Two flags are added to r5conf->cache_state: R5C_LOG_TIGHT and
R5C_LOG_CRITICAL. R5C_LOG_TIGHT is set when free space on the log
device is less than 3x of reclaim_required_space. R5C_LOG_CRITICAL
is set when free space on the log device is less than 2x of
reclaim_required_space.
r5c_cache keeps all data in cache (not fully committed to RAID) in
a list (stripe_in_journal_list). These stripes are in the order of their
first appearance on the journal. So the log tail (last_checkpoint)
should point to the journal_start of the first item in the list.
When R5C_LOG_TIGHT is set, r5l_reclaim_thread starts flushing out
stripes at the head of stripe_in_journal. When R5C_LOG_CRITICAL is
set, the state machine only writes data that are already in the
log device (in stripe_in_journal_list).
This patch includes a fix to improve performance by
Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
As described in previous patch, write back cache operates in two
phases: caching and writing-out. The caching phase works as:
1. write data to journal
(r5c_handle_stripe_dirtying, r5c_cache_data)
2. call bio_endio
(r5c_handle_data_cached, r5c_return_dev_pending_writes).
Then the writing-out phase is as:
1. Mark the stripe as write-out (r5c_make_stripe_write_out)
2. Calcualte parity (reconstruct or RMW)
3. Write parity (and maybe some other data) to journal device
4. Write data and parity to RAID disks
This patch implements caching phase. The cache is integrated with
stripe cache of raid456. It leverages code of r5l_log to write
data to journal device.
Writing-out phase of the cache is implemented in the next patch.
With r5cache, write operation does not wait for parity calculation
and write out, so the write latency is lower (1 write to journal
device vs. read and then write to raid disks). Also, r5cache will
reduce RAID overhead (multipile IO due to read-modify-write of
parity) and provide more opportunities of full stripe writes.
This patch adds 2 flags to stripe_head.state:
- STRIPE_R5C_PARTIAL_STRIPE,
- STRIPE_R5C_FULL_STRIPE,
Instead of inactive_list, stripes with cached data are tracked in
r5conf->r5c_full_stripe_list and r5conf->r5c_partial_stripe_list.
STRIPE_R5C_FULL_STRIPE and STRIPE_R5C_PARTIAL_STRIPE are flags for
stripes in these lists. Note: stripes in r5c_full/partial_stripe_list
are not considered as "active".
For RMW, the code allocates an extra page for each data block
being updated. This is stored in r5dev->orig_page and the old data
is read into it. Then the prexor calculation subtracts ->orig_page
from the parity block, and the reconstruct calculation adds the
->page data back into the parity block.
r5cache naturally excludes SkipCopy. When the array has write back
cache, async_copy_data() will not skip copy.
There are some known limitations of the cache implementation:
1. Write cache only covers full page writes (R5_OVERWRITE). Writes
of smaller granularity are write through.
2. Only one log io (sh->log_io) for each stripe at anytime. Later
writes for the same stripe have to wait. This can be improved by
moving log_io to r5dev.
3. With writeback cache, read path must enter state machine, which
is a significant bottleneck for some workloads.
4. There is no per stripe checkpoint (with r5l_payload_flush) in
the log, so recovery code has to replay more than necessary data
(sometimes all the log from last_checkpoint). This reduces
availability of the array.
This patch includes a fix proposed by ZhengYuan Liu
<liuzhengyuan@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
This patch adds state machine for raid5-cache. With log device, the
raid456 array could operate in two different modes (r5c_journal_mode):
- write-back (R5C_MODE_WRITE_BACK)
- write-through (R5C_MODE_WRITE_THROUGH)
Existing code of raid5-cache only has write-through mode. For write-back
cache, it is necessary to extend the state machine.
With write-back cache, every stripe could operate in two different
phases:
- caching
- writing-out
In caching phase, the stripe handles writes as:
- write to journal
- return IO
In writing-out phase, the stripe behaviors as a stripe in write through
mode R5C_MODE_WRITE_THROUGH.
STRIPE_R5C_CACHING is added to sh->state to differentiate caching and
writing-out phase.
Please note: this is a "no-op" patch for raid5-cache write-through
mode.
The following detailed explanation is copied from the raid5-cache.c:
/*
* raid5 cache state machine
*
* With rhe RAID cache, each stripe works in two phases:
* - caching phase
* - writing-out phase
*
* These two phases are controlled by bit STRIPE_R5C_CACHING:
* if STRIPE_R5C_CACHING == 0, the stripe is in writing-out phase
* if STRIPE_R5C_CACHING == 1, the stripe is in caching phase
*
* When there is no journal, or the journal is in write-through mode,
* the stripe is always in writing-out phase.
*
* For write-back journal, the stripe is sent to caching phase on write
* (r5c_handle_stripe_dirtying). r5c_make_stripe_write_out() kicks off
* the write-out phase by clearing STRIPE_R5C_CACHING.
*
* Stripes in caching phase do not write the raid disks. Instead, all
* writes are committed from the log device. Therefore, a stripe in
* caching phase handles writes as:
* - write to log device
* - return IO
*
* Stripes in writing-out phase handle writes as:
* - calculate parity
* - write pending data and parity to journal
* - write data and parity to raid disks
* - return IO for pending writes
*/
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Currently, r5l_write_stripe checks meta size for each stripe write,
which is not necessary.
With this patch, r5l_init_log checks maximal meta size of the array,
which is (r5l_meta_block + raid_disks x r5l_payload_data_parity).
If this is too big to fit in one page, r5l_init_log aborts.
With current meta data, r5l_log support raid_disks up to 203.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
We can calculate this offset by using ctx->meta_total_blocks,
without passing in from the function
Signed-off-by: JackieLiu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Remove the WRITE_* and READ_SYNC wrappers, and just use the flags
directly. Where applicable this also drops usage of the
bio_set_op_attrs wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
As long as we recover one metadata block, we should write the empty metadata
write. The original code could make recovery corrupted if only one meta is
valid.
Reported-by: Zhengyuan Liu <liuzhengyuan@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
If superblock points to an invalid meta block, r5l_load_log will set
create_super with true and create an new superblock, this runtime path
would always happen if we do no writing I/O to this array since it was
created. Writing an empty meta block could avoid this unnecessary
action at the first time we created log superblock.
Another reason is for the corretness of log recovery. Currently we have
bellow code to guarantee log revocery to be correct.
if (ctx.seq > log->last_cp_seq + 1) {
int ret;
ret = r5l_log_write_empty_meta_block(log, ctx.pos, ctx.seq + 10);
if (ret)
return ret;
log->seq = ctx.seq + 11;
log->log_start = r5l_ring_add(log, ctx.pos, BLOCK_SECTORS);
r5l_write_super(log, ctx.pos);
} else {
log->log_start = ctx.pos;
log->seq = ctx.seq;
}
If we just created a array with a journal device, log->log_start and
log->last_checkpoint should all be 0, then we write three meta block
which are valid except mid one and supposed crash happened. The ctx.seq
would equal to log->last_cp_seq + 1 and log->log_start would be set to
position of mid invalid meta block after we did a recovery, this will
lead to problems which could be avoided with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Zhengyuan Liu <liuzhengyuan@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
No initial operation was done to this field when we
load/recovery the log, it got assignment only when IO
to raid disk was finished. So r5l_quiesce may use wrong
next_checkpoint to reclaim log space, that would make
reclaimable space calculation confused.
Signed-off-by: Zhengyuan Liu <liuzhengyuan@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
There is a potential deadlock in superblock write. Discard could zero data, so
before discard we must make sure superblock is updated to new log tail.
Updating superblock (either directly call md_update_sb() or depend on md
thread) must hold reconfig mutex. On the other hand, raid5_quiesce is called
with reconfig_mutex hold. The first step of raid5_quiesce() is waitting for all
IO finish, hence waitting for reclaim thread, while reclaim thread is calling
this function and waitting for reconfig mutex. So there is a deadlock. We
workaround this issue with a trylock. The downside of the solution is we could
miss discard if we can't take reconfig mutex. But this should happen rarely
(mainly in raid array stop), so miss discard shouldn't be a big problem.
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Since commit 63a4cc2486, bio->bi_rw contains flags in the lower
portion and the op code in the higher portions. This means that
old code that relies on manually setting bi_rw is most likely
going to be broken. Instead of letting that brokeness linger,
rename the member, to force old and out-of-tree code to break
at compile time instead of at runtime.
No intended functional changes in this commit.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
To avoid confusion between REQ_OP_FLUSH, which is handled by
request_fn drivers, and upper layers requesting the block layer
perform a flush sequence along with possibly a WRITE, this patch
renames REQ_FLUSH to REQ_PREFLUSH.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Separate the op from the rq_flag_bits and have md
set/get the bio using bio_set_op_attrs/bio_op.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This has callers of submit_bio/submit_bio_wait set the bio->bi_rw
instead of passing it in. This makes that use the same as
generic_make_request and how we set the other bio fields.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Fixed up fs/ext4/crypto.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Pull MD updates from Shaohua Li:
"Several patches from Guoqing fixing md-cluster bugs and several
patches from Heinz fixing dm-raid bugs"
* tag 'md/4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md:
md-cluster: check the return value of process_recvd_msg
md-cluster: gather resync infos and enable recv_thread after bitmap is ready
md: set MD_CHANGE_PENDING in a atomic region
md: raid5: add prerequisite to run underneath dm-raid
md: raid10: add prerequisite to run underneath dm-raid
md: md.c: fix oops in mddev_suspend for raid0
md-cluster: fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings
md-cluster/bitmap: unplug bitmap to sync dirty pages to disk
md-cluster/bitmap: fix wrong page num in bitmap_file_clear_bit and bitmap_file_set_bit
md-cluster/bitmap: fix wrong calcuation of offset
md-cluster: sync bitmap when node received RESYNCING msg
md-cluster: always setup in-memory bitmap
md-cluster: wakeup thread if activated a spare disk
md-cluster: change array_sectors and update size are not supported
md-cluster: fix locking when node joins cluster during message broadcast
md-cluster: unregister thread if err happened
md-cluster: wake up thread to continue recovery
md-cluser: make resync_finish only called after pers->sync_request
md-cluster: change resync lock from asynchronous to synchronous
Some code waits for a metadata update by:
1. flagging that it is needed (MD_CHANGE_DEVS or MD_CHANGE_CLEAN)
2. setting MD_CHANGE_PENDING and waking the management thread
3. waiting for MD_CHANGE_PENDING to be cleared
If the first two are done without locking, the code in md_update_sb()
which checks if it needs to repeat might test if an update is needed
before step 1, then clear MD_CHANGE_PENDING after step 2, resulting
in the wait returning early.
So make sure all places that set MD_CHANGE_PENDING are atomicial, and
bit_clear_unless (suggested by Neil) is introduced for the purpose.
Cc: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Now that we converted everything to the newer block write cache
interface, kill off the queue flush_flags and queueable flush
entries.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Set MD_HAS_JOURNAL when a array is loaded or journal is initialized.
This is to avoid the flags set too early in journal disk hotadd.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
And propagate the error up the stack so we can add the stripe
to no_stripes_list and retry our log operation later. This avoids
blocking raid5d due to reclaim, an it allows to get rid of the
deadlock-prone GFP_NOFAIL allocation.
shli: add missing mempool_destroy()
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
We only have a limited number in flight, so use a page based mempool.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Add support for journal disk hot add/remove. Mostly trival checks in md
part. The raid5 part is a little tricky. For hot-remove, we can't wait
pending write as it's called from raid5d. The wait will cause deadlock.
We simplily fail the hot-remove. A hot-remove retry can success
eventually since if journal disk is faulty all pending write will be
failed and finish. For hot-add, since an array supporting journal but
without journal disk will be marked read-only, we are safe to hot add
journal without stopping IO (should be read IO, while journal only
handles write IO).
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Once the I/O completed we don't need the meta page anymore. As the iounits
can live on for a long time this reduces memory pressure a bit.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
It's only used for one kind of move, so make that explicit. Also clean
up the code a bit by using list_for_each_safe.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
If raid array is expected to have journal (eg, journal is set in MD
superblock feature map) and the array is started without journal disk,
start the array readonly.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
There are 3 places the raid5-cache dispatches IO. The discard IO error
doesn't matter, so we ignore it. The superblock write IO error can be
handled in MD core. The remaining are log write and flush. When the IO
error happens, we mark log disk faulty and fail all write IO. Read IO is
still allowed to run. Userspace will get a notification too and
corresponding daemon can choose setting raid array readonly for example.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Since superblock is updated infrequently, we do a simple trim of log
disk (a synchronous trim)
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Simplify the bio completion handler by using bio chaining and submitting
bios as soon as they are full.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Factor out code to reserve log space.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
This is the only user, and keeping all code initializing the io_unit
structure together improves readbility.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Set up bi_sector properly when we allocate an bio instead of updating it
at submission time.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Split out a helper to allocate a bio for log writes.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Remove the only partially used local 'io' variable to simplify the code
flow.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
For devices without a volatile write cache we don't need to send a FLUSH
command to ensure writes are stable on disk, and thus can avoid the whole
step of batching up bios for processing by the MD thread.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
After this series we won't nessecarily have flushed the cache for these
I/Os, so give the list a more neutral name.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
There is no good reason to keep the I/O unit structures around after the
stripe has been written back to the RAID array. The only information
we need is the log sequence number, and the checkpoint offset of the
highest successfull writeback. Store those in the log structure, and
free the IO units from __r5l_stripe_write_finished.
Besides simplifying the code this also avoid having to keep the allocation
for the I/O unit around for a potentially long time as superblock updates
that checkpoint the log do not happen very often.
This also fixes the previously incorrect calculation of 'free' in
r5l_do_reclaim as a side effect: previous if took the last unit which
isn't checkpointed into account.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Move reclaim stop to quiesce handling, where is safer for this stuff.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
There is a case a stripe gets delayed forever.
1. a stripe finishes construction
2. a new bio hits the stripe
3. handle_stripe runs for the stripe. The stripe gets DELAYED bit set
since construction can't run for new bio (the stripe is locked since
step 1)
Without log, handle_stripe will call ops_run_io. After IO finishes, the
stripe gets unlocked and the stripe will restart and run construction
for the new bio. With log, ops_run_io need to run two times. If the
DELAYED bit set, the stripe can't enter into the handle_list, so the
second ops_run_io doesn't run, which leaves the stripe stalled.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
stripes could finish out of order. Hence r5l_move_io_unit_list() of
__r5l_stripe_write_finished might not move any entry and leave
stripe_end_ios list empty.
This applies on top of http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=144122700510667
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
With log enabled, bio is written to raid disks after the bio is settled
down in log disk. The recovery guarantees we can recovery the bio data
from log disk, so we we skip FLUSH IO.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Just keep __r5l_set_io_unit_state as a small set the state wrapper, and
remove r5l_set_io_unit_state entirely after moving the real
functionality to the two callers that need it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
r5l_compress_stripe_end_list() can free an io_unit. This breaks the
assumption only reclaimer can free io_unit. We can add a reference count
based io_unit free, but since only reclaim can wait io_unit becoming to
STRIPE_END state, we use a simple global wait queue here.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Before we write stripe data to raid disks, we must guarantee stripe data
is settled down in log disk. To do this, we flush log disk cache and
wait the flush finish. That wait introduces sleep time in raid5d thread
and impact performance. This patch moves the log disk cache flush
process to the stripe handling state machine, which can remove the wait
in raid5d.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
crc32c has lower overhead with cpu acceleration. It's a shame I didn't
use it in first post, sorry. This changes disk format, but we are still
ok in current stage.
V2: delete unnecessary type conversion as pointed out by Bart
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
This is the log recovery support. The process is quite straightforward.
We scan the log and read all valid meta/data/parity into memory. If a
stripe's data/parity checksum is correct, the stripe will be recoveried.
Otherwise, it's discarded and we don't scan the log further. The reclaim
process guarantees stripe which starts to be flushed raid disks has
completed data/parity and has correct checksum. To recovery a stripe, we
just copy its data/parity to corresponding raid disks.
The trick thing is superblock update after recovery. we can't let
superblock point to last valid meta block. The log might look like:
| meta 1| meta 2| meta 3|
meta 1 is valid, meta 2 is invalid. meta 3 could be valid. If superblock
points to meta 1, we write a new valid meta 2n. If crash happens again,
new recovery will start from meta 1. Since meta 2n is valid, recovery
will think meta 3 is valid, which is wrong. The solution is we create a
new meta in meta2 with its seq == meta 1's seq + 10 and let superblock
points to meta2. recovery will not think meta 3 is a valid meta,
because its seq is wrong
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
This is the reclaim support for raid5 log. A stripe write will have
following steps:
1. reconstruct the stripe, read data/calculate parity. ops_run_io
prepares to write data/parity to raid disks
2. hijack ops_run_io. stripe data/parity is appending to log disk
3. flush log disk cache
4. ops_run_io run again and do normal operation. stripe data/parity is
written in raid array disks. raid core can return io to upper layer.
5. flush cache of all raid array disks
6. update super block
7. log disk space used by the stripe can be reused
In practice, several stripes consist of an io_unit and we will batch
several io_unit in different steps, but the whole process doesn't
change.
It's possible io return just after data/parity hit log disk, but then
read IO will need read from log disk. For simplicity, IO return happens
at step 4, where read IO can directly read from raid disks.
Currently reclaim run if there is specific reclaimable space (1/4 disk
size or 10G) or we are out of space. Reclaim is just to free log disk
spaces, it doesn't impact data consistency. The size based force reclaim
is to make sure log isn't too big, so recovery doesn't scan log too
much.
Recovery make sure raid disks and log disk have the same data of a
stripe. If crash happens before 4, recovery might/might not recovery
stripe's data/parity depending on if data/parity and its checksum
matches. In either case, this doesn't change the syntax of an IO write.
After step 3, stripe is guaranteed recoverable, because stripe's
data/parity is persistent in log disk. In some cases, log disk content
and raid disks content of a stripe are the same, but recovery will still
copy log disk content to raid disks, this doesn't impact data
consistency. space reuse happens after superblock update and cache
flush.
There is one situation we want to avoid. A broken meta in the middle of
a log causes recovery can't find meta at the head of log. If operations
require meta at the head persistent in log, we must make sure meta
before it persistent in log too. The case is stripe data/parity is in
log and we start write stripe to raid disks (before step 4). stripe
data/parity must be persistent in log before we do the write to raid
disks. The solution is we restrictly maintain io_unit list order. In
this case, we only write stripes of an io_unit to raid disks till the
io_unit is the first one whose data/parity is in log.
The io_unit list order is important for other cases too. For example,
some io_unit are reclaimable and others not. They can be mixed in the
list, we shouldn't reuse space of an unreclaimable io_unit.
Includes fixes to problems which were...
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
This introduces a simple log for raid5. Data/parity writing to raid
array first writes to the log, then write to raid array disks. If
crash happens, we can recovery data from the log. This can speed up
raid resync and fix write hole issue.
The log structure is pretty simple. Data/meta data is stored in block
unit, which is 4k generally. It has only one type of meta data block.
The meta data block can track 3 types of data, stripe data, stripe
parity and flush block. MD superblock will point to the last valid
meta data block. Each meta data block has checksum/seq number, so
recovery can scan the log correctly. We store a checksum of stripe
data/parity to the metadata block, so meta data and stripe data/parity
can be written to log disk together. otherwise, meta data write must
wait till stripe data/parity is finished.
For stripe data, meta data block will record stripe data sector and
size. Currently the size is always 4k. This meta data record can be made
simpler if we just fix write hole (eg, we can record data of a stripe's
different disks together), but this format can be extended to support
caching in the future, which must record data address/size.
For stripe parity, meta data block will record stripe sector. It's
size should be 4k (for raid5) or 8k (for raid6). We always store p
parity first. This format should work for caching too.
flush block indicates a stripe is in raid array disks. Fixing write
hole doesn't need this type of meta data, it's for caching extension.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
