I have a report of drop_one_stripe() called from
raid5_cache_scan() apparently finding ->max_nr_stripes == 0.

This should not be allowed.

So add a test to keep max_nr_stripes above min_nr_stripes.

Also use a 'mask' rather than a 'mod' in drop_one_stripe
to ensure 'hash' is valid even if max_nr_stripes does reach zero.


Fixes: edbe83ab ("md/raid5: allow the stripe_cache to grow and shrink.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (4.1 - please release with 2d5b569b)
Reported-by: NTomas Papan <tomas.papan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>

This flag is currently never cleared, which can in rare cases
trigger a warn-on if it is still set but the block isn't
InSync.

So clear it when it isn't need, which includes if the replacement
device has failed.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>

Cache size can grow or shrink due to various pressures at
any time.  So when we resize the cache as part of a 'grow'
operation (i.e. change the size to allow more devices) we need
to blocks that automatic growing/shrinking.

So introduce a mutex.  auto grow/shrink uses mutex_trylock()
and just doesn't bother if there is a blockage.
Resizing the whole cache holds the mutex to ensure that
the correct number of new stripes is allocated.

This bug can result in some stripes not being freed when an
array is stopped.  This leads to the kmem_cache not being
freed and a subsequent array can try to use the same kmem_cache
and get confused.

Fixes: edbe83ab ("md/raid5: allow the stripe_cache to grow and shrink.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (4.1 - please delay until 2 weeks after release of 4.2)
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>

conf->released_stripes list isn't always related to where there are
free stripes pending. Active stripes can be in the list too.
And even free stripes were active very recently.
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

I noticed heavy spin lock contention at get_active_stripe() with fsmark
multiple thread write workloads.

Here is how this hot contention comes from. We have limited stripes, and
it's a multiple thread write workload. Hence, those stripes will be taken
soon, which puts later processes to sleep for waiting free stripes. When
enough stripes(>= 1/4 total stripes) are released, all process are woken,
trying to get the lock. But there is one only being able to get this lock
for each hash lock, making other processes spinning out there for acquiring
the lock.

Thus, it's effectiveless to wakeup all processes and let them battle for
a lock that permits one to access only each time. Instead, we could make
it be a exclusive wake up: wake up one process only. That avoids the heavy
spin lock contention naturally.

To do the exclusive wake up, we've to split wait_for_stripe into multiple
wait queues, to make it per hash value, just like the hash lock.

Here are some test results I have got with this patch applied(all test run
3 times):

`fsmark.files_per_sec'
=====================

next-20150317                 this patch
-------------------------     -------------------------
metric_value     ±stddev      metric_value     ±stddev     change      testbox/benchmark/testcase-params
-------------------------     -------------------------   --------     ------------------------------
      25.600     ±0.0              92.700     ±2.5          262.1%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-btrfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
      25.600     ±0.0              77.800     ±0.6          203.9%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-btrfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
      32.000     ±0.0              93.800     ±1.7          193.1%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-ext4-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
      32.000     ±0.0              81.233     ±1.7          153.9%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-ext4-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
      48.800     ±14.5             99.667     ±2.0          104.2%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-xfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
       6.400     ±0.0              12.800     ±0.0          100.0%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-3HDD-RAID5-btrfs-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose
      63.133     ±8.2              82.800     ±0.7           31.2%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-xfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
     245.067     ±0.7             306.567     ±7.9           25.1%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-f2fs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
      17.533     ±0.3              21.000     ±0.8           19.8%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-1t-3HDD-RAID5-xfs-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose
     188.167     ±1.9             215.033     ±3.1           14.3%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-1t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-btrfs-4M-30G-NoSync
     254.500     ±1.8             290.733     ±2.4           14.2%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-1t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-btrfs-4M-30G-NoSync

`time.system_time'
=====================

next-20150317                 this patch
-------------------------    -------------------------
metric_value     ±stddev     metric_value     ±stddev     change       testbox/benchmark/testcase-params
-------------------------    -------------------------    --------     ------------------------------
    7235.603     ±1.2             185.163     ±1.9          -97.4%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-btrfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
    7666.883     ±2.9             202.750     ±1.0          -97.4%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-btrfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
   14567.893     ±0.7             421.230     ±0.4          -97.1%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-3HDD-RAID5-btrfs-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose
    3697.667     ±14.0            148.190     ±1.7          -96.0%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-xfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
    5572.867     ±3.8             310.717     ±1.4          -94.4%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-ext4-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
    5565.050     ±0.5             313.277     ±1.5          -94.4%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-ext4-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
    2420.707     ±17.1            171.043     ±2.7          -92.9%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-xfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
    3743.300     ±4.6             379.827     ±3.5          -89.9%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-3HDD-RAID5-ext4-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose
    3308.687     ±6.3             363.050     ±2.0          -89.0%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-3HDD-RAID5-xfs-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose

Where,

     1x: where 'x' means iterations or loop, corresponding to the 'L' option of fsmark

     1t, 64t: where 't' means thread

     4M: means the single file size, corresponding to the '-s' option of fsmark
     40G, 30G, 120G: means the total test size

     4BRD_12G: BRD is the ramdisk, where '4' means 4 ramdisk, and where '12G' means
               the size of one ramdisk. So, it would be 48G in total. And we made a
               raid on those ramdisk

As you can see, though there are no much performance gain for hard disk
workload, the system time is dropped heavily, up to 97%. And as expected,
the performance increased a lot, up to 260%, for fast device(ram disk).

v2: use bits instead of array to note down wait queue need to wake up.
Signed-off-by: NYuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

I noticed heavy spin lock contention at get_active_stripe(), introduced
at being wake up stage, where a bunch of processes try to re-hold the
spin lock again.

After giving some thoughts on this issue, I found the lock could be
relieved(and even avoided) if we turn the wait_for_stripe to per
waitqueue for each lock hash and make the wake up exclusive: wake up
one process each time, which avoids the lock contention naturally.

Before go hacking with wait_for_stripe, I found it actually has 2
usages: for the array to enter or leave the quiescent state, and also
to wait for an available stripe in each of the hash lists.

So this patch splits the first usage off into a separate wait_queue,
wait_for_quiescent, and the next patch will turn the second usage into
one waitqueue for each hash value, and make it exclusive, to relieve
the lock contention.

v2: wake_up(wait_for_quiescent) when (active_stripes == 0)
    Commit log refactor suggestion from Neil.
Signed-off-by: NYuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

MD_RECOVERY_DONE is normally cleared by md_check_recovery after a
resync etc finished.  However it is possible for raid5_start_reshape
to race and start a reshape before MD_RECOVERY_DONE is cleared.  This
can lean to multiple reshapes running at the same time, which isn't
good.

To make sure it is cleared before starting a reshape, and also clear
it when reaping a thread, just to be safe.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown  <neilb@suse.de>

Once the array has too much failure, we need to break
stripe-batches up so they can all be dealt with.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

Now that the code in break_stripe_batch_list() is nearly identical
to the end of handle_stripe_clean_event, replace the later
with a function call.

The only remaining difference of any interest is the masking that is
applieds to dev[i].flags copied from head_sh.
R5_WriteError certainly isn't wanted as it is set per-stripe, not
per-patch.  R5_Overlap isn't wanted as it is explicitly handled.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

When a batch of stripes is broken up, we keep some of the flags
that were per-stripe, and copy other flags from the head to all
others.

This only happens while a stripe is being handled, so many of the
flags are irrelevant.

The "SYNC_FLAGS" (which I've renamed to make it clear there are
several) and STRIPE_DEGRADED are set per-stripe and so need to be
preserved.  STRIPE_INSYNC is the only flag that is set on the head
that needs to be propagated to all others.

For safety, add a WARN_ON if others are set, except:
 STRIPE_HANDLE - this is safe and per-stripe and we are going to set
      in several cases anyway
 STRIPE_INSYNC
 STRIPE_IO_STARTED - this is just a hint and doesn't hurt.
 STRIPE_ON_PLUG_LIST
 STRIPE_ON_RELEASE_LIST - It is a point pointless for a batched
           stripe to be on one of these lists, but it can happen
           as can be safely ignored.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

When we break a stripe_batch_list we sometimes want to set
STRIPE_HANDLE on the individual stripes, and sometimes not.

So pass a 'handle_flags' arg.  If it is zero, always set STRIPE_HANDLE
(on non-head stripes).  If not zero, only set it if any of the given
flags are present.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

break_stripe_batch list didn't clear head_sh->batch_head.
This was probably a bug.

Also clear all R5_Overlap flags and if any were cleared, wake up
'wait_for_overlap'.
This isn't always necessary but the worst effect is a little
extra checking for code that is waiting on wait_for_overlap.

Also, don't use wake_up_nr() because that does the wrong thing
if 'nr' is zero, and it number of flags cleared doesn't
strongly correlate with the number of threads to wake.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

handle_stripe_clean_event() contains a chunk of code very
similar to check_break_stripe_batch_list().
If we make the latter more like the former, we can end up
with just one copy of this code.

This  first step removed the condition (and the 'check_') part
of the name.  This has the added advantage of making it clear
what check is being performed at the point where the function is
called.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

If a stripe is a member of a batch, but not the head, it must
not be handled separately from the rest of the batch.

'clear_batch_ready()' handles this requirement to some
extent but not completely.  If a member is passed to handle_stripe()
a second time it returns '0' indicating the stripe can be handled,
which is wrong.
So add an extra test.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

When we add a write to a stripe we need to make sure the bitmap
bit is set.  While doing that the stripe is not locked so it could
be added to a batch after which further changes to STRIPE_BIT_DELAY
and ->bm_seq are ineffective.

So we need to hold off adding to a stripe until bitmap_startwrite has
completed at least once, and we need to avoid further changes to
STRIPE_BIT_DELAY once the stripe has been added to a batch.

If a bitmap_startwrite() completes after the stripe was added to a
batch, it will not have set the bit, only incremented a counter, so no
extra delay of the stripe is needed.
Reported-by: NShaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

When we add a stripe to a batch, we need to be sure that
head stripe will wait for the bitmap update required for the new
stripe.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

ops_run_reconstruct6() doesn't correctly chain asyn operations. The tx returned
by async_gen_syndrome should be added as the dependent tx of next stripe.

The issue is introduced by commit 59fc630b
    RAID5: batch adjacent full stripe write
Reported-and-tested-by: NMaxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

There is no need for special handling of stripe-batches when the array
is degraded.

There may be if there is a failure in the batch, but STRIPE_DEGRADED
does not imply an error.

So don't set STRIPE_BATCH_ERR in ops_run_io just because the array is
degraded.
This actually causes a bug: the STRIPE_DEGRADED flag gets cleared in
check_break_stripe_batch_list() and so the bitmap bit gets cleared
when it shouldn't.

So in check_break_stripe_batch_list(), split the batch up completely -
again STRIPE_DEGRADED isn't meaningful.

Also don't set STRIPE_BATCH_ERR when there is a write error to a
replacement device.  This simply removes the replacement device and
requires no extra handling.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

As the new 'scribble' array is sized based on chunk size,
we need to make sure the size matches the largest of 'old'
and 'new' chunk sizes when the array is undergoing reshape.

We also potentially need to resize it even when not resizing
the stripe cache, as chunk size can change without changing
number of devices.

So move the 'resize' code into a separate function, and
consider old and new sizes when allocating.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Fixes: 46d5b785 ("raid5: use flex_array for scribble data")

If any memory allocation in resize_stripes fails we will return
-ENOMEM, but in some cases we update conf->pool_size anyway.

This means that if we try again, the allocations will be assumed
to be larger than they are, and badness results.

So only update pool_size if there is no error.

This bug was introduced in 2.6.17 and the patch is suitable for
-stable.

Fixes: ad01c9e3 ("[PATCH] md: Allow stripes to be expanded in preparation for expanding an array")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v2.6.17+)
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

When performing a reconstruct write, we need to read all blocks
that are not being over-written .. except the parity (P and Q) blocks.

The code currently reads these (as they are not being over-written!)
unnecessarily.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Fixes: ea664c82 ("md/raid5: need_this_block: tidy/fix last condition.")

It is not incorrect to call handle_stripe_fill() when
a batch of full-stripe writes is active.
It is, however, a BUG if fetch_block() then decides
it needs to actually fetch anything.

So move the 'BUG_ON' to where it belongs.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown  <neilb@suse.de>
Fixes: 59fc630b ("RAID5: batch adjacent full stripe write")

The new batch_lock and batch_list fields are being initialized in
grow_one_stripe() but not in resize_stripes().  This causes a crash
on resize.

So separate the core initialization into a new function and call it
from both allocation sites.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Fixes: 59fc630b ("RAID5: batch adjacent full stripe write")

When array is degraded, read data landed on failed drives will result in
reading rest of data in a stripe. So a single sequential read would
result in same data being read twice.

This patch is to avoid chunk aligned read for degraded array. The
downside is to involve stripe cache which means associated CPU overhead
and extra memory copy.

Test Results:
Following test are done on a enterprise storage node with Seagate 6T SAS
drives and Xeon E5-2648L CPU (10 cores, 1.9Ghz), 10 disks MD RAID6 8+2,
chunk size 128 KiB.

I use FIO, using direct-io with various bs size, enough queue depth,
tested sequential and 100% random read against 3 array config:
 1) optimal, as baseline;
 2) degraded;
 3) degraded with this patch.
Kernel version is 4.0-rc3.

Each individual test I only did once so there might be some variations,
but we just focus on big trend.

Sequential Read:
  bs=(KiB)  optimal(MiB/s)  degraded(MiB/s)  degraded-with-patch (MiB/s)
   1024       1608            656              995
    512       1624            710              956
    256       1635            728              980
    128       1636            771              983
     64       1612           1119             1000
     32       1580           1420             1004
     16       1368            688              986
      8        768            647              953
      4        411            413              850

Random Read:
  bs=(KiB)  optimal(IOPS)  degraded(IOPS)  degraded-with-patch (IOPS)
   1024        163            160              156
    512        274            273              272
    256        426            428              424
    128        576            592              591
     64        726            724              726
     32        849            848              837
     16        900            970              971
      8        927            940              929
      4        948            940              955

Some notes:
  * In sequential + optimal, as bs size getting smaller, the FIO thread
become CPU bound.
  * In sequential + degraded, there's big increase when bs is 64K and
32K, I don't have explanation.
  * In sequential + degraded-with-patch, the MD thread mostly become CPU
bound.

If you want to we can discuss specific data point in those data. But in
general it seems with this patch, we have more predictable and in most
cases significant better sequential read performance when array is
degraded, and almost no noticeable impact on random read.

Performance is a complicated thing, the patch works well for this
particular configuration, but may not be universal. For example I
imagine testing on all SSD array may have very different result. But I
personally think in most cases IO bandwidth is more scarce resource than
CPU.
Signed-off-by: NEric Mei <eric.mei@seagate.com>
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

The default setting of 256 stripe_heads is probably
much too small for many configurations.  So it is best to make it
auto-configure.

Shrinking the cache under memory pressure is easy.  The only
interesting part here is that we put a fairly high cost
('seeks') on shrinking the cache as the cost is greater than
just having to read more data, it reduces parallelism.

Growing the cache on demand needs to be done carefully.  If we allow
fast growth, that can upset memory balance as lots of dirty memory can
quickly turn into lots of memory queued in the stripe_cache.
It is important for the raid5 block device to appear congested to
allow write-throttling to work.

So we only add stripes slowly. We set a flag when an allocation
fails because all stripes are in use, allocate at a convenient
time when that flag is set, and don't allow it to be set again
until at least one stripe_head has been released for re-use.

This means that a spurt of requests will only cause one stripe_head
to be allocated, but a steady stream of requests will slowly
increase the cache size - until memory pressure puts it back again.

It could take hours to reach a steady state.

The value written to, and displayed in, stripe_cache_size is
used as a minimum.  The cache can grow above this and shrink back
down to it.  The actual size is not directly visible, though it can
be deduced to some extent by watching stripe_cache_active.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

This allows us to easily add more (atomic) flags.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

Rather than adjusting max_nr_stripes whenever {grow,drop}_one_stripe()
succeeds, do it inside the functions.

Also choose the correct hash to handle next inside the functions.

This removes duplication and will help with future new uses of
{grow,drop}_one_stripe.

This also fixes a minor bug where the "md/raid:%md: allocate XXkB"
message always said "0kB".
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

This is needed for future improvement to stripe cache management.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

Depending on the available coding we allow optimized rmw logic for write
operations. To support easier testing this patch allows manual control
of the rmw/rcw descision through the interface /sys/block/mdX/md/rmw_level.

The configuration can handle three levels of control.

rmw_level=0: Disable rmw for all RAID types. Hardware assisted P/Q
calculation has no implementation path yet to factor in/out chunks of
a syndrome. Enforcing this level can be benefical for slow CPUs with
hardware syndrome support and fast SSDs.

rmw_level=1: Estimate rmw IOs and rcw IOs. Execute rmw only if we will
save IOs. This equals the "old" unpatched behaviour and will be the
default.

rmw_level=2: Execute rmw even if calculated IOs for rmw and rcw are
equal. We might have higher CPU consumption because of calculating the
parity twice but it can be benefical otherwise. E.g. RAID4 with fast
dedicated parity disk/SSD. The option is implemented just to be
forward-looking and will ONLY work with this patch!
Signed-off-by: NMarkus Stockhausen <stockhausen@collogia.de>
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

Glue it altogehter. The raid6 rmw path should work the same as the
already existing raid5 logic. So emulate the prexor handling/flags
and split functions as needed.

1) Enable xor_syndrome() in the async layer.

2) Split ops_run_prexor() into RAID4/5 and RAID6 logic. Xor the syndrome
at the start of a rmw run as we did it before for the single parity.

3) Take care of rmw run in ops_run_reconstruct6(). Again process only
the changed pages to get syndrome back into sync.

4) Enhance set_syndrome_sources() to fill NULL pages if we are in a rmw
run. The lower layers will calculate start & end pages from that and
call the xor_syndrome() correspondingly.

5) Adapt the several places where we ignored Q handling up to now.

Performance numbers for a single E5630 system with a mix of 10 7200k
desktop/server disks. 300 seconds random write with 8 threads onto a
3,2TB (10*400GB) RAID6 64K chunk without spare (group_thread_cnt=4)

bsize   rmw_level=1   rmw_level=0   rmw_level=1   rmw_level=0
        skip_copy=1   skip_copy=1   skip_copy=0   skip_copy=0
   4K      115 KB/s      141 KB/s      165 KB/s      140 KB/s
   8K      225 KB/s      275 KB/s      324 KB/s      274 KB/s
  16K      434 KB/s      536 KB/s      640 KB/s      534 KB/s
  32K      751 KB/s    1,051 KB/s    1,234 KB/s    1,045 KB/s
  64K    1,339 KB/s    1,958 KB/s    2,282 KB/s    1,962 KB/s
 128K    2,673 KB/s    3,862 KB/s    4,113 KB/s    3,898 KB/s
 256K    7,685 KB/s    7,539 KB/s    7,557 KB/s    7,638 KB/s
 512K   19,556 KB/s   19,558 KB/s   19,652 KB/s   19,688 Kb/s
Signed-off-by: NMarkus Stockhausen <stockhausen@collogia.de>
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

expansion/resync can grab a stripe when the stripe is in batch list. Since all
stripes in batch list must be in the same state, we can't allow some stripes
run into expansion/resync. So we delay expansion/resync for stripe in batch
list.
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

If io error happens in any stripe of a batch list, the batch list will be
split, then normal process will run for the stripes in the list.
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

stripe cache is 4k size. Even adjacent full stripe writes are handled in 4k
unit. Idealy we should use big size for adjacent full stripe writes. Bigger
stripe cache size means less stripes runing in the state machine so can reduce
cpu overhead. And also bigger size can cause bigger IO size dispatched to under
layer disks.

With below patch, we will automatically batch adjacent full stripe write
together. Such stripes will be added to the batch list. Only the first stripe
of the list will be put to handle_list and so run handle_stripe(). Some steps
of handle_stripe() are extended to cover all stripes of the list, including
ops_run_io, ops_run_biodrain and so on. With this patch, we have less stripes
running in handle_stripe() and we send IO of whole stripe list together to
increase IO size.

Stripes added to a batch list have some limitations. A batch list can only
include full stripe write and can't cross chunk boundary to make sure stripes
have the same parity disks. Stripes in a batch list must be in the same state
(no written, toread and so on). If a stripe is in a batch list, all new
read/write to add_stripe_bio will be blocked to overlap conflict till the batch
list is handled. The limitations will make sure stripes in a batch list be in
exactly the same state in the life circly.

I did test running 160k randwrite in a RAID5 array with 32k chunk size and 6
PCIe SSD. This patch improves around 30% performance and IO size to under layer
disk is exactly 32k. I also run a 4k randwrite test in the same array to make
sure the performance isn't changed with the patch.
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

Track overwrite disk count, so we can know if a stripe is a full stripe write.
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

A freshly new stripe with write request can be batched. Any time the stripe is
handled or new read is queued, the flag will be cleared.
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

Use flex_array for scribble data. Next patch will batch several stripes
together, so scribble data should be able to cover several stripes, so this
patch also allocates scribble data for stripes across a chunk.
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

This option is not well justified and testing suggests that
it hardly ever makes any difference.

The comment suggests there might be a need to wait for non-resync
activity indicated by ->nr_waiting, however raise_barrier()
already waits for all of that.

So just remove it to simplify reasoning about speed limiting.

This allows us to remove a 'FIXME' comment from raid5.c as that
never used the flag.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

When we have more than 1 drive failure, it's possible we start
rebuild one drive while leaving another faulty drive in array.
To determine whether array will be optimal after building, current
code only check whether a drive is missing, which could potentially
lead to data corruption. This patch is to add checking Faulty flag.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

Commit a7854487:
  md: When RAID5 is dirty, force reconstruct-write instead of read-modify-write.

Causes an RCW cycle to be forced even when the array is degraded.
A degraded array cannot support RCW as that requires reading all data
blocks, and one may be missing.

Forcing an RCW when it is not possible causes a live-lock and the code
spins, repeatedly deciding to do something that cannot succeed.

So change the condition to only force RCW on non-degraded arrays.
Reported-by: NManibalan P <pmanibalan@amiindia.co.in>
Bisected-by: NJes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Tested-by: NJes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Fixes: a7854487
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v3.7+)

Rather than using mddev_lock() to take the reconfig_mutex
when writing to any md sysfs file, we only take mddev_lock()
in the particular _store() functions that require it.
Admittedly this is most, but it isn't all.

This also allows us to remove special-case handling for new_dev_store
(in md_attr_store).
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>