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2017-02-17dm round robin: revert "use percpu 'repeat_count' and 'current_path'"Mike Snitzer
The sloppy nature of lockless access to percpu pointers (s->current_path) in rr_select_path(), from multiple threads, is causing some paths to used more than others -- which results in less IO performance being observed. Revert these upstream commits to restore truly symmetric round-robin IO submission in DM multipath: b0b477c dm round robin: use percpu 'repeat_count' and 'current_path' 802934b dm round robin: do not use this_cpu_ptr() without having preemption disabled There is no benefit to all this complexity if repeat_count = 1 (which is the recommended default). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.6+ Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2016-08-15dm round robin: do not use this_cpu_ptr() without having preemption disabledMike Snitzer
Use local_irq_save() to disable preemption before calling this_cpu_ptr(). Reported-by: Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Fixes: b0b477c7e0dd ("dm round robin: use percpu 'repeat_count' and 'current_path'") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.6+ Suggested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2016-02-22dm round robin: use percpu 'repeat_count' and 'current_path'Mike Snitzer
Now that dm-mpath core is lockless in the per-IO fast path it is critical, for performance, to have the .select_path hook (rr_select_path) also be as lockless as possible. The new percpu members of 'struct selector' allow for lockless support of 'repeat_count' governed repeat use of a previously selected path. If a path fails while it is 'current_path' the worst case is concurrent IO might be mapped to the failed path until the .fail_path hook (rr_fail_path) is called. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2016-02-22dm path selector: remove 'repeat_count' return from .select_path hookMike Snitzer
If a path selector has any use for a repeat_count it should be handled locally and not depend on the dm-mpath core to be concerned with it. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2016-02-22dm mpath: push path selector locking down to path selectorsMike Snitzer
Proper locking of the lists used by the path selectors should be handled within the selectors (relying on dm-mpath.c code's use of the m->lock spinlock was reckless). Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2016-02-22dm mpath: remove repeat_count support from multipath coreMike Snitzer
Preparation for making __multipath_map() avoid taking the m->lock spinlock -- in favor of using RCU locking. repeat_count was primarily for bio-based DM multipath's benefit. There is really no need for it anymore now that DM multipath is request-based. As such, repeat_count > 1 is no longer honored and a warning is displayed if the user attempts to use a value > 1. This is a temporary change for the round-robin path-selector (as a later commit will restore its support for repeat_count > 1). Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2012-03-28dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf inputMikulas Patocka
Device mapper uses sscanf to convert arguments to numbers. The problem is that the way we use it ignores additional unmatched characters in the scanned string. For example, this `if (sscanf(string, "%d", &number) == 1)' will match a number, but also it will match number with some garbage appended, like "123abc". As a result, device mapper accepts garbage after some numbers. For example the command `dmsetup create vg1-new --table "0 16384 linear 254:1bla 34816bla"' will pass without an error. This patch fixes all sscanf uses in device mapper. It appends "%c" with a pointer to a dummy character variable to every sscanf statement. The construct `if (sscanf(string, "%d%c", &number, &dummy) == 1)' succeeds only if string is a null-terminated number (optionally preceded by some whitespace characters). If there is some character appended after the number, sscanf matches "%c", writes the character to the dummy variable and returns 2. We check the return value for 1 and consequently reject numbers with some garbage appended. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-10-31md: Add module.h to all files using it implicitlyPaul Gortmaker
A pending cleanup will mean that module.h won't be implicitly everywhere anymore. Make sure the modular drivers in md dir are actually calling out for <module.h> explicitly in advance. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2009-06-22dm mpath: add start_io and nr_bytes to path selectorsKiyoshi Ueda
This patch makes two additions to the dm path selector interface for dynamic load balancers: o a new hook, start_io() o a new parameter 'nr_bytes' to select_path()/start_io()/end_io() to pass the size of the I/O start_io() is called when a target driver actually submits I/O to the selected path. Path selectors can use it to start accounting of the I/O. (e.g. counting the number of in-flight I/Os.) The start_io hook is based on the patch posted by Stefan Bader: https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2005-October/msg00050.html nr_bytes, the size of the I/O, is so path selectors can take the size of the I/O into account when deciding which path to use. dm-service-time uses it to estimate service time, for example. (Added the nr_bytes member to dm_mpath_io instead of using existing details.bi_size, since request-based dm patch deletes it.) Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> 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>
2008-10-21dm: remove dm header from targetsMikulas Patocka
Change #include "dm.h" to #include <linux/device-mapper.h> in all targets. Targets should not need direct access to internal DM structures. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2007-07-12dm: remove duplicate module name from error msgsAlasdair G Kergon
Remove explicit module name from messages as the macro now includes it automatically. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] struct path: rename DM's struct pathJosef "Jeff" Sipek
Rename DM's struct path to struct dm_path to prevent name collision between it and struct path from fs/namei.c. Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-08[PATCH] dm: multipath: fix rr_add_path orderJonathan E Brassow
When adding paths to the round-robin path selector, their order gets inverted, which is not desirable. Fix by replacing list_add() with list_add_tail(). Signed-off-by: Jonathan E Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <dm-devel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm: improve error message consistencyAlasdair G Kergon
Tidy device-mapper error messages to include context information automatically. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!