Hello, here is the second version of the patch. With this version also on setting /sys/block/*/md/sync_force_parallel the sync_thread is woken up. Though, I still don't understand why md_wakeup_thread() is not working. Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert <bs@xxxxxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6.22/drivers/md/md.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.22.orig/drivers/md/md.c 2007-12-06 19:51:55.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.22/drivers/md/md.c 2007-12-06 19:52:33.000000000 +0100 @@ -2843,6 +2843,41 @@ __ATTR(sync_speed_max, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, static ssize_t +sync_force_parallel_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page) +{ + return sprintf(page, "%d\n", mddev->parallel_resync); +} + +static ssize_t +sync_force_parallel_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len) +{ + char *e; + unsigned long n = simple_strtoul(buf, &e, 10); + + if (!*buf || (*e && *e != '\n') || (n != 0 && n != 1)) + return -EINVAL; + + mddev->parallel_resync = n; + + if (mddev->sync_thread) { + dprintk("md: waking up MD thread %s.\n", + mddev->sync_thread->tsk->comm); + set_bit(THREAD_WAKEUP, &mddev->sync_thread->flags); + wake_up_process(mddev->sync_thread->tsk); + +/* FIXME: why does md_wakeup_thread() not work?, + somehow related to: wake_up(&thread->wqueue); + md_wakeup_thread(mddev->sync_thread); */ + } + return len; +} + +/* force parallel resync, even with shared block devices */ +static struct md_sysfs_entry md_sync_force_parallel = +__ATTR(sync_force_parallel, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, + sync_force_parallel_show, sync_force_parallel_store); + +static ssize_t sync_speed_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page) { unsigned long resync, dt, db; @@ -2980,6 +3015,7 @@ static struct attribute *md_redundancy_a &md_sync_min.attr, &md_sync_max.attr, &md_sync_speed.attr, + &md_sync_force_parallel.attr, &md_sync_completed.attr, &md_suspend_lo.attr, &md_suspend_hi.attr, @@ -5264,8 +5300,9 @@ void md_do_sync(mddev_t *mddev) ITERATE_MDDEV(mddev2,tmp) { if (mddev2 == mddev) continue; - if (mddev2->curr_resync && - match_mddev_units(mddev,mddev2)) { + if (!mddev->parallel_resync + && mddev2->curr_resync + && match_mddev_units(mddev,mddev2)) { DEFINE_WAIT(wq); if (mddev < mddev2 && mddev->curr_resync == 2) { /* arbitrarily yield */ Index: linux-2.6.22/include/linux/raid/md_k.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.22.orig/include/linux/raid/md_k.h 2007-12-06 19:51:55.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.22/include/linux/raid/md_k.h 2007-12-06 19:52:33.000000000 +0100 @@ -170,6 +170,9 @@ struct mddev_s int sync_speed_min; int sync_speed_max; + /* resync even though the same disks are shared among md-devices */ + int parallel_resync; + int ok_start_degraded; /* recovery/resync flags * NEEDED: we might need to start a resync/recover -- Bernd Schubert Q-Leap Networks GmbH - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html