Now that we've got code for raid5/6 stripe awareness, bcache just needs to know about the stripes and when writing partial stripes is expensive - we probably don't want to enable this optimization for raid1 or 10, even though they have stripes. So add a flag to queue_limits. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- This is in my pile of bcache stuff queued up for 3.14 - if no one objects it'll be in my bcache pull request: drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 6 ++++++ drivers/md/raid5.c | 1 + include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c index 63ebef78df..e363efcf2b 100644 --- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c @@ -1134,6 +1134,12 @@ static int cached_dev_init(struct cached_dev *dc, unsigned block_size) hlist_add_head(&io->hash, dc->io_hash + RECENT_IO); } + dc->disk.stripe_size = q->limits.io_opt >> 9; + + if (dc->disk.stripe_size) + dc->partial_stripes_expensive = + q->limits.raid_partial_stripes_expensive; + ret = bcache_device_init(&dc->disk, block_size, dc->bdev->bd_part->nr_sects - dc->sb.data_offset); if (ret) diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c index bef353c51c..4b5035f286 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c @@ -6104,6 +6104,7 @@ static int run(struct mddev *mddev) blk_queue_io_min(mddev->queue, chunk_size); blk_queue_io_opt(mddev->queue, chunk_size * (conf->raid_disks - conf->max_degraded)); + mddev->queue->limits.raid_partial_stripes_expensive = 1; /* * We can only discard a whole stripe. It doesn't make sense to * discard data disk but write parity disk diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 02cb6f0ea7..0375654adb 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -291,6 +291,7 @@ struct queue_limits { unsigned char discard_misaligned; unsigned char cluster; unsigned char discard_zeroes_data; + unsigned char raid_partial_stripes_expensive; }; struct request_queue { -- 1.8.5.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html