1. 02 8月, 2012 2 次提交
  2. 06 5月, 2012 1 次提交
  3. 04 1月, 2012 1 次提交
  4. 02 11月, 2011 1 次提交
  5. 25 10月, 2011 1 次提交
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      exofs: Support for RAID5 read-4-write interface. · dd296619
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      The ore need suplied a r4w_get_page/r4w_put_page API
      from Filesystem so it can get cache pages to read-into when
      writing parial stripes.
      
      Also I commented out and NULLed the .writepage (singular)
      vector. Because it gives terrible write pattern to raid
      and is apparently not needed. Even in OOM conditions the
      system copes (even better) with out it.
      
      TODO: How to specify to write_cache_pages() to start
            or include a certain page?
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      dd296619
  6. 15 10月, 2011 4 次提交
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      ore/exofs: Change ore_check_io API · 4b46c9f5
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      Current ore_check_io API receives a residual
      pointer, to report partial IO. But it is actually
      not used, because in a multiple devices IO there
      is never a linearity in the IO failure.
      
      On the other hand if every failing device is reported
      through a received callback measures can be taken to
      handle only failed devices. One at a time.
      
      This will also be needed by the objects-layout-driver
      for it's error reporting facility.
      
      Exofs is not currently using the new information and
      keeps the old behaviour of failing the complete IO in
      case of an error. (No partial completion)
      
      TODO: Use an ore_check_io callback to set_page_error only
      the failing pages. And re-dirty write pages.
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      4b46c9f5
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      ore/exofs: Define new ore_verify_layout · 5a51c0c7
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      All users of the ore will need to check if current code
      supports the given layout. For example RAID5/6 is not
      currently supported.
      
      So move all the checks from exofs/super.c to a new
      ore_verify_layout() to be used by ore users.
      
      Note that any new layout should be passed through the
      ore_verify_layout() because the ore engine will prepare
      and verify some internal members of ore_layout, and
      assumes it's called.
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      5a51c0c7
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      exofs: Support for short read/writes · 154a9300
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      If at read/write_done the actual IO was shorter then requested,
      reported in returned ios->length. It is not an error. The reminder
      of the pages should just be unlocked but not marked uptodate or
      end_page_writeback. They will be re issued later by the VFS.
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      154a9300
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      ore: Only IO one group at a time (API change) · b916c5cd
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      Usually a single IO is confined to one group of devices
      (group_width) and at the boundary of a raid group it can
      spill into a second group. Current code would allocate a
      full device_table size array at each io_state so it can
      comply to requests that span two groups. Needless to say
      that is very wasteful, specially when device_table count
      can get very large (hundreds even thousands), while a
      group_width is usually 8 or 10.
      
      * Change ore API to trim on IO that spans two raid groups.
        The user passes offset+length to ore_get_rw_state, the
        ore might trim on that length if spanning a group boundary.
        The user must check ios->length or ios->nrpages to see
        how much IO will be preformed. It is the responsibility
        of the user to re-issue the reminder of the IO.
      
      * Modify exofs To copy spilled pages on to the next IO.
        This means one last kick is needed after all coalescing
        of pages is done.
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      b916c5cd
  7. 03 10月, 2011 1 次提交
  8. 07 8月, 2011 4 次提交
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      exofs: Rename raid engine from exofs/ios.c => ore · 8ff660ab
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      ORE stands for "Objects Raid Engine"
      
      This patch is a mechanical rename of everything that was in ios.c
      and its API declaration to an ore.c and an osd_ore.h header. The ore
      engine will later be used by the pnfs objects layout driver.
      
      * File ios.c => ore.c
      
      * Declaration of types and API are moved from exofs.h to a new
        osd_ore.h
      
      * All used types are prefixed by ore_ from their exofs_ name.
      
      * Shift includes from exofs.h to osd_ore.h so osd_ore.h is
        independent, include it from exofs.h.
      
      Other than a pure rename there are no other changes. Next patch
      will move the ore into it's own module and will export the API
      to be used by exofs and later the layout driver
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      8ff660ab
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      exofs: ios: Move to a per inode components & device-table · 9e9db456
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      Exofs raid engine was saving on memory space by having a single layout-info,
      single pid, and a single device-table, global to the filesystem. Then passing
      a credential and object_id info at the io_state level, private for each
      inode. It would also devise this contraption of rotating the device table
      view for each inode->ino to spread out the device usage.
      
      This is not compatible with the pnfs-objects standard, demanding that
      each inode can have it's own layout-info, device-table, and each object
      component it's own pid, oid and creds.
      
      So: Bring exofs raid engine to be usable for generic pnfs-objects use by:
      
      * Define an exofs_comp structure that holds obj_id and credential info.
      
      * Break up exofs_layout struct to an exofs_components structure that holds a
        possible array of exofs_comp and the array of devices + the size of the
        arrays.
      
      * Add a "comps" parameter to get_io_state() that specifies the ids creds
        and device array to use for each IO.
      
        This enables to keep the layout global, but the device-table view, creds
        and IDs at the inode level. It only adds two 64bit to each inode, since
        some of these members already existed in another form.
      
      * ios raid engine now access layout-info and comps-info through the passed
        pointers. Everything is pre-prepared by caller for generic access of
        these structures and arrays.
      
      At the exofs Level:
      
      * Super block holds an exofs_components struct that holds the device
        array, previously in layout. The devices there are in device-table
        order. The device-array is twice bigger and repeats the device-table
        twice so now each inode's device array can point to a random device
        and have a round-robin view of the table, making it compatible to
        previous exofs versions.
      
      * Each inode has an exofs_components struct that is initialized at
        load time, with it's own view of the device table IDs and creds.
        When doing IO this gets passed to the io_state together with the
        layout.
      
      While preforming this change. Bugs where found where credentials with the
      wrong IDs where used to access the different SB objects (super.c). As well
      as some dead code. It was never noticed because the target we use does not
      check the credentials.
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      9e9db456
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      exofs: Move exofs specific osd operations out of ios.c · 85e44df4
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      ios.c will be moving to an external library, for use by the
      objects-layout-driver. Remove from it some exofs specific functions.
      
      Also g_attr_logical_length is used both by inode.c and ios.c
      move definition to the later, to keep it independent
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      85e44df4
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      exofs: Add offset/length to exofs_get_io_state · e1042ba0
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      In future raid code we will need to know the IO offset/length
      and if it's a read or write to determine some of the array
      sizes we'll need.
      
      So add a new exofs_get_rw_state() API for use when
      writeing/reading. All other simple cases are left using the
      old way.
      
      The major change to this is that now we need to call
      exofs_get_io_state later at inode.c::read_exec and
      inode.c::write_exec when we actually know these things. So this
      patch is kept separate so I can test things apart from other
      changes.
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      e1042ba0
  9. 15 3月, 2011 4 次提交
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      exofs: Write sbi->s_nextid as part of the Create command · 1cea312a
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      Before when creating a new inode, we'd set the sb->s_dirt flag,
      and sometime later the system would write out s_nextid as part
      of the sb_info. Also on inode sync we would force the sb sync
      as well.
      
      Define the s_nextid as a new partition attribute and set it
      every time we create a new object.
      At mount we read it from it's new place.
      
      We now never set sb->s_dirt anywhere in exofs. write_super
      is actually never called. The call to exofs_write_super from
      exofs_put_super is also removed because the VFS always calls
      ->sync_fs before calling ->put_super twice.
      
      To stay backward-and-forward compatible we also write the old
      s_nextid in the super_block object at unmount, and support zero
      length attribute on mount.
      
      This also fixes a BUG where in layouts when group_width was not
      a divisor of EXOFS_SUPER_ID (0x10000) the s_nextid was not read
      from the device it was written to. Because of the sliding window
      layout trick, and because the read was always done from the 0
      device but the write was done via the raid engine that might slide
      the device view. Now we read and write through the raid engine.
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      1cea312a
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      exofs: Override read-ahead to align on stripe_size · 66cd6cad
      bharrosh@panasas.com 提交于
      * Set all inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info to point to
        the per super-block sb->s_bdi.
      
      * Calculating a read_ahead that is:
        - preferable 2 stripes long
          (Future patch will add a mount option to override this)
        - Minimum 128K aligned up to stripe-size
        - Caped to maximum-IO-sizes round down to stripe_size.
          (Max sizes are governed by max bio-size that fits in a page
           times number-of-devices)
      
      CC: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      66cd6cad
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      exofs: simple fsync race fix · 97178b7b
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      It is incorrect to test inode dirty bits without participating in the inode
      writeback protocol. Inode writeback sets I_SYNC and clears I_DIRTY_?, then
      writes out the particular bits, then clears I_SYNC when it is done. BTW. it
      may not completely write all pages out, so I_DIRTY_PAGES would get set
      again.
      
      This is a standard pattern used throughout the kernel's writeback caches
      (I_SYNC ~= I_WRITEBACK, if that makes it clearer).
      
      And so it is not possible to determine an inode's dirty status just by
      checking I_DIRTY bits. Especially not for the purpose of data integrity
      syncs.
      
      Missing the check for these bits means that fsync can complete while
      writeback to the inode is underway. Inode writeback functions get this
      right, so call into them rather than try to shortcut things by testing
      dirty state improperly.
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      97178b7b
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      exofs: Optimize read_4_write · a8f1418f
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      Don't attempt a read passed i_size, just zero the page and be
      done with it.
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      a8f1418f
  10. 10 3月, 2011 1 次提交
  11. 03 2月, 2011 1 次提交
  12. 26 10月, 2010 2 次提交
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      exofs: Remove inode->i_count manipulation in exofs_new_inode · fe2fd9ed
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      exofs_new_inode() was incrementing the inode->i_count and
      decrementing it in create_done(), in a bad attempt to make sure
      the inode will still be there when the asynchronous create_done()
      finally arrives. This was very stupid because iput() was not called,
      and if it was actually needed, it would leak the inode.
      
      However all this is not needed, because at exofs_evict_inode()
      we already wait for create_done() by waiting for the
      object_created event. Therefore remove the superfluous ref counting
      and just Thicken the comment at exofs_evict_inode() a bit.
      
      While at it change places that open coded wait_obj_created()
      to call the already available wrapper.
      
      CC: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      fe2fd9ed
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      fs/exofs: typo fix of faild to failed · 571f7f46
      Joe Perches 提交于
      Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      571f7f46
  13. 19 10月, 2010 2 次提交
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      exofs: Set i_mapping->backing_dev_info anyway · 115e19c5
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      Though it has been promised that inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info
      is not used and the supporting code is fine. Until the pointer
      will default to NULL, I'd rather it points to the correct thing
      regardless.
      
      At least for future infrastructure coder it is a clear indication
      of where are the key points that inodes are initialized.
      I know because it took me time to find this out.
      
      Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <Boaz Harrosh bharrosh@panasas.com>
      115e19c5
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      exofs: Cleaup read path in regard with read_for_write · 7aebf410
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      Last BUG fix added a flag to the the page_collect structure
      to communicate with readpage_strip. This calls for a clean up
      removing that flag's reincarnations in the read functions
      parameters.
      
      Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <Boaz Harrosh bharrosh@panasas.com>
      7aebf410
  14. 08 10月, 2010 1 次提交
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      exofs: Fix double page_unlock BUG in write_begin/end · f17b1f9f
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      This BUG is there since the first submit of the code, but only triggered
      in last Kernel. It's timing related do to the asynchronous object-creation
      behaviour of exofs. (Which should be investigated farther)
      
      The bug is obvious hence the fixed.
      
      Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <Boaz Harrosh bharrosh@panasas.com>
      f17b1f9f
  15. 10 8月, 2010 3 次提交
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      convert exofs to ->evict_inode() · 4ec70c9b
      Al Viro 提交于
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      4ec70c9b
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      exofs: New truncate sequence · 2f246fd0
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      These changes are crafted based on the similar
      conversion done to ext2 by Nick Piggin.
      
      * Remove the deprecated ->truncate vector. Let exofs_setattr
        take care of on-disk size updates.
      * Call truncate_pagecache on the unused pages if
        write_begin/end fails.
      * Cleanup exofs_delete_inode that did stupid inode
        writes and updates on an inode that will be
        removed.
      * And finally get rid of exofs_get_block. We never
        had any blocks it was all for calling nobh_truncate_page.
        nobh_truncate_page is not actually needed in exofs since
        the last page is complete and gone, just like all the other
        pages. There is no partial blocks in exofs.
      
      I've tested with this patch, and there are no apparent
      failures, so far.
      
      CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      2f246fd0
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      remove inode_setattr · 1025774c
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      Replace inode_setattr with opencoded variants of it in all callers.  This
      moves the remaining call to vmtruncate into the filesystem methods where it
      can be replaced with the proper truncate sequence.
      
      In a few cases it was obvious that we would never end up calling vmtruncate
      so it was left out in the opencoded variant:
      
       spufs: explicitly checks for ATTR_SIZE earlier
       btrfs,hugetlbfs,logfs,dlmfs: explicitly clears ATTR_SIZE earlier
       ufs: contains an opencoded simple_seattr + truncate that sets the filesize just above
      
      In addition to that ncpfs called inode_setattr with handcrafted iattrs,
      which allowed to trim down the opencoded variant.
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      1025774c
  16. 09 8月, 2010 1 次提交
  17. 04 8月, 2010 1 次提交
  18. 22 5月, 2010 1 次提交
  19. 17 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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      exofs: Add default address_space_operations · 200b0700
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      All vectors of address_space_operations should be initialized
      by the filesystem. Add the missing parts.
      
      This is actually an optimization, by using
      __set_page_dirty_nobuffers. The default, in case of NULL,
      would be __set_page_dirty_buffers which has these extar if(s).
      
      .releasepage && .invalidatepage should both not be called
      because page_private() is NULL in exofs. Put a WARN_ON if
      they are called, to indicate the Kernel has changed in this
      regard, if when it does.
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      200b0700
  20. 30 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking... · 5a0e3ad6
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
      
      percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
      included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
      in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
      universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
      
      percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
      this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
      headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
      needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
      used as the basis of conversion.
      
        http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
      
      The script does the followings.
      
      * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
        only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
        gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
      
      * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
        blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
        to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
        core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
        alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
        doesn't seem to be any matching order.
      
      * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
        because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
        an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
        file.
      
      The conversion was done in the following steps.
      
      1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
         over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
         and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
         files.
      
      2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
         some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
         embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
         inclusions to around 150 files.
      
      3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
         from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
      
      4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
         e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
         APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
      
      5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
         editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
         files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
         inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
         wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
         slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
         necessary.
      
      6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
      
      7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
         were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
         distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
         more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
         build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
      
         * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
         * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
         * s390 SMP allmodconfig
         * alpha SMP allmodconfig
         * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
      
      8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
         a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
      
      Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
      6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
      If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
      headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
      the specific arch.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Guess-its-ok-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      5a0e3ad6
  21. 06 3月, 2010 1 次提交
  22. 28 2月, 2010 5 次提交
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      exofs: Error recovery if object is missing from storage · 96391e2b
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      If an object is referenced by a directory but does not
      exist on a target, it is a very serious corruption that
      means:
      1. Either a power failure with very slim chance of it
        happening. Because the directory update is always submitted
        much after object creation, but if a directory is written
        to one device and the object creation to another it might
        theoretically happen.
      2. It only ever happened to me while developing with BUGs
        causing file corruption. Crashes could also cause it but
        they are more like case 1.
      
      In any way the object does not exist, so data is surely lost.
      If there is a mix-up in the obj-id or data-map, then lost objects
      can be salvaged by off-line fsck. The only recoverable information
      is the directory name. By letting it appear as a regular empty file,
      with date==0 (1970 Jan 1st) ownership to root, we enable recovery
      of the only useful information. And also enable deletion or over-write.
      I can see how this can hurt.
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      96391e2b
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      exofs: convert io_state to use pages array instead of bio at input · 86093aaf
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      * inode.c operations are full-pages based, and not actually
        true scatter-gather
      * Lets us use more pages at once upto 512 (from 249) in 64 bit
      * Brings us much much closer to be able to use exofs's io_state engine
        from objlayout driver. (Once I decide where to put the common code)
      
      After RAID0 patch the outer (input) bio was never used as a bio, but
      was simply a page carrier into the raid engine. Even in the simple
      mirror/single-dev arrangement pages info was copied into a second bio.
      It is now easer to just pass a pages array into the io_state and prepare
      bio(s) once.
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      86093aaf
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      exofs: RAID0 support · 5d952b83
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      We now support striping over mirror devices. Including variable sized
      stripe_unit.
      
      Some limits:
      * stripe_unit must be a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
      * stripe_unit * stripe_count is maximum upto 32-bit (4Gb)
      
      Tested RAID0 over mirrors, RAID0 only, mirrors only. All check.
      
      Design notes:
      * I'm not using a vectored raid-engine mechanism yet. Following the
        pnfs-objects-layout data-map structure, "Mirror" is just a private
        case of "group_width" == 1, and RAID0 is a private case of
        "Mirrors" == 1. The performance lose of the general case over the
        particular special case optimization is totally negligible, also
        considering the extra code size.
      
      * In general I added a prepare_stripes() stage that divides the
        to-be-io pages to the participating devices, the previous
        exofs_ios_write/read, now becomes _write/read_mirrors and a new
        write/read upper layer loops on all devices calling
        _write/read_mirrors. Effectively the prepare_stripes stage is the all
        secret.
        Also truncate need fixing to accommodate for striping.
      
      * In a RAID0 arrangement, in a regular usage scenario, if all inode
        layouts will start at the same device, the small files fill up the
        first device and the later devices stay empty, the farther the device
        the emptier it is.
      
        To fix that, each inode will start at a different stripe_unit,
        according to it's obj_id modulus number-of-stripe-units. And
        will then span all stripe-units in the same incrementing order
        wrapping back to the beginning of the device table. We call it
        a stripe-units moving window.
      
        Special consideration was taken to keep all devices in a mirror
        arrangement identical. So a broken osd-device could just be cloned
        from one of the mirrors and no FS scrubbing is needed. (We do that
        by rotating stripe-unit at a time and not a single device at a time.)
      
      TODO:
       We no longer verify object_length == inode->i_size in exofs_iget.
       (since i_size is stripped on multiple objects now).
       I should introduce a multiple-device attribute reading, and use
       it in exofs_iget.
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      5d952b83
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      exofs: Define on-disk per-inode optional layout attribute · d9c740d2
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      * Layouts describe the way a file is spread on multiple devices.
        The layout information is stored in the objects attribute introduced
        in this patch.
      
      * There can be multiple generating function for the layout.
        Currently defined:
          - No attribute present - use below moving-window on global
            device table, all devices.
            (This is the only one currently used in exofs)
          - an obj_id generated moving window - the obj_id is a randomizing
            factor in the otherwise global map layout.
          - An explicit layout stored, including a data_map and a device
            index list.
          - More might be defined in future ...
      
      * There are two attributes defined of the same structure:
        A-data-files-layout - This layout is used by data-files. If present
                              at a directory, all files of that directory will
                              be created with this layout.
        A-meta-data-layout - This layout is used by a directory and other
                             meta-data information. Also inherited at creation
                             of subdirectories.
      
      * At creation time inodes are created with the layout specified above.
        A usermode utility may change the creation layout on a give directory
        or file. Which in the case of directories, will also apply to newly
        created files/subdirectories, children of that directory.
        In the simple unaltered case of a newly created exofs, no layout
        attributes are present, and all layouts adhere to the layout specified
        at the device-table.
      
      * In case of a future file system loaded in an old exofs-driver.
        At iget(), the generating_function is inspected and if not supported
        will return an IO error to the application and the inode will not
        be loaded. So not to damage any data.
        Note: After this patch we do not yet support any type of layout
              only the RAID0 patch that enables striping at the super-block
              level will add support for RAID0 layouts above. This way we
              are past and future compatible and fully bisectable.
      
      * Access to the device table is done by an accessor since
        it will change according to above information.
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      d9c740d2
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      exofs: Move layout related members to a layout structure · 45d3abcb
      Boaz Harrosh 提交于
      * Abstract away those members in exofs_sb_info that are related/needed
        by a layout into a new exofs_layout structure. Embed it in exofs_sb_info.
      
      * At exofs_io_state receive/keep a pointer to an exofs_layout. No need for
        an exofs_sb_info pointer, all we need is at exofs_layout.
      
      * Change any usage of above exofs_sb_info members to their new name.
      Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
      45d3abcb