25 Oct, 2011
3 commits
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This is finally the RAID5 Write support.
The bigger part of this patch is not the XOR engine itself, But the
read4write logic, which is a complete mini prepare_for_striping
reading engine that can read scattered pages of a stripe into cache
so it can be used for XOR calculation. That is, if the write was not
stripe aligned.The main algorithm behind the XOR engine is the 2 dimensional array:
struct __stripe_pages_2d.
A drawing might save 1000 words
---__stripe_pages_2d
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n = pages_in_stripe_unit;
w = group_width - parity;
| pages array presented to the XOR lib
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__1_page_stripe[0].pages --> [c0][c1]..[cw][c_par] [c0][c1]..[cw][c_par] [c0][c1]..[cw][c_par]
^
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data added columns first then row---
The pages are put on this array columns first. .i.e:
p0-of-c0, p1-of-c0, ... pn-of-c0, p0-of-c1, ...
So we are doing a corner turn of the pages.Note that pages will zigzag down and left. but are put sequentially
in growing order. So when the time comes to XOR the stripe, only the
beginning and end of the array need be checked. We scan the array
and any NULL spot will be field by pages-to-be-read.The FS that wants to support RAID5 needs to supply an
operations-vector that searches a given page in cache, and specifies
if the page is uptodate or need reading. All these pages to be read
are put on a slave ore_io_state and synchronously read. All the pages
of a stripe are read in one IO, using the scatter gather mechanism.In write we constrain our IO to only be incomplete on a single
stripe. Meaning either the complete IO is within a single stripe so
we might have pages to read from both beginning or end of the
strip. Or we have some reading to do at beginning but end at strip
boundary. The left over pages are pushed to the next IO by the API
already established by previous work, where an IO offset/length
combination presented to the ORE might get the length truncated and
the user must re-submit the leftover pages. (Both exofs and NFS
support this)But any ORE user should make it's best effort to align it's IO
before hand and avoid complications. A cached ore_layout->stripe_size
member can be used for that calculation. (NOTE: that ORE demands
that stripe_size may not be bigger then 32bit)What else? Well read it and tell me.
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
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This patch introduces the first stage of RAID5 support
mainly the skip-over-raid-units when reading. For
writes it inserts BLANK units, into where XOR blocks
should be calculated and written to.It introduces the new "general raid maths", and the main
additional parameters and components needed for raid5.Since at this stage it could corrupt future version that
actually do support raid5. The enablement of raid5
mounting and setting of parity-count > 0 is disabled. So
the raid5 code will never be used. Mounting of raid5 is
only enabled later once the basic XOR write is also in.
But if the patch "enable RAID5" is applied this code has
been tested to be able to properly read raid5 volumes
and is according to standard.Also it has been tested that the new maths still properly
supports RAID0 and grouping code just as before.
(BTW: I have found more bugs in the pnfs-obj RAID math
fixed here)The ore.c file is getting too big, so new ore_raid.[hc]
files are added that will include the special raid stuff
that are not used in striping and mirrors. In future write
support these will get bigger.
When adding the ore_raid.c to Kbuild file I was forced to
rename ore.ko to libore.ko. Is it possible to keep source
file, say ore.c and module file ore.ko the same even if there
are multiple files inside ore.ko?Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
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ore_calc_stripe_info is needed by exofs::export.c
for the layout calculations. Make it exportableSigned-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
15 Oct, 2011
4 commits
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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: Boaz Harrosh
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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: Boaz Harrosh
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Users like the objlayout-driver would like to only pass
a partial device table that covers the IO in question.
For example exofs divides the file into raid-group-sized
chunks and only serves group_width number of devices at
a time.The partiality is communicated by setting
ore_componets->first_dev and the array covers all logical
devices from oc->first_dev upto (oc->first_dev + oc->numdevs)The ore_comp_dev() API receives a logical device index
and returns the actual present device in the table.
An out-of-range dev_index will BUG.Logical device index is the theoretical device index as if
all the devices of a file are present. .i.e:
total_devs = group_width * mirror_p1 * group_count
0 < total_devsSigned-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
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Now that each ore_io_state covers only a single raid group.
A single striping_info math is needed. Embed one inside
ore_io_state to cache the calculation results and eliminate
an extra call.Also the outer _prepare_for_striping is removed since it does nothing.
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
04 Oct, 2011
1 commit
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In the pNFS obj-LD the device table at the layout level needs
to point to a device_cache node, where it is possible and likely
that many layouts will point to the same device-nodes.In Exofs we have a more orderly structure where we have a single
array of devices that repeats twice for a round-robin view of the
device tableThis patch moves to a model that can be used by the pNFS obj-LD
where struct ore_components holds an array of ore_dev-pointers.
(ore_dev is newly defined and contains a struct osd_dev *od
member)Each pointer in the array of pointers will point to a bigger
user-defined dev_struct. That can be accessed by use of the
container_of macro.In Exofs an __alloc_dev_table() function allocates the
ore_dev-pointers array as well as an exofs_dev array, in one
allocation and does the addresses dance to set everything pointing
correctly. It still keeps the double allocation trick for the
inodes round-robin view of the table.The device table is always allocated dynamically, also for the
single device case. So it is unconditionally freed at umount.Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
03 Oct, 2011
3 commits
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The struct ore_striping_info will be used later in other
structures. And ore_calc_stripe_info as well. Rename them
make struct ore_striping_info public. ore_calc_stripe_info
is still static, will be made public on first use.Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
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The struct pnfs_osd_data_map data_map member of exofs_sb_info was
never used after mount. In fact all it's members were duplicated
by the ore_layout structure. So just remove the duplicated information.Also removed some stupid, but perfectly supported, restrictions on
layout parameters. The case where num_devices is not divisible by
mirror_count+1 is perfectly fine since the rotating device view
will eventually use all the devices it can get.Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy -
ore_components already has a comps member so this leads
to things like comps->comps which is annoying. the name oc
was already used in new code. So rename all old usage of
ore_components comps => ore_components oc.Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
07 Aug, 2011
1 commit
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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 driverSigned-off-by: Boaz Harrosh