Re: [PATCH 5/6] Remove code for non re-striping operations.

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On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:01:32 +0100 Krzysztof Wojcik
<krzysztof.wojcik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Neil,
> How was your intention when you add this part of code?
> I can't find the case when it will be necessary.
> Moreover it breaks flow for takeover operations because
> ioctl not succeeded when more than one parameter is changed.
> I've remove this code temporally to be able test takeover
> operations.
> We can restore this code after we decide what it should do.

Asking what the purpose of some code is is perfectly OK.  Asking by sending a
patch which removes the code seems ... odd.

If the number of data devices is 1, then a RAID5 can have layout/chunksize
changed without any restriping.
This code handles that case.

NeilBrown


> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wojcik <krzysztof.wojcik@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Grow.c |   43 +++++--------------------------------------
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Grow.c b/Grow.c
> index 253f289..6835f34 100644
> --- a/Grow.c
> +++ b/Grow.c
> @@ -1666,6 +1666,11 @@ static int reshape_array(char *container, int fd, char *devname,
>  		ping_monitor(container);
>  	}
>  
> +	if (reshape.backup_blocks == 0) {
> +		/* If operation not not reuire re-striping we can finish */
> +		return rv;
> +	}
> +
>  	/* ->reshape_super might have chosen some spares from the
>  	 * container that it wants to be part of the new array.
>  	 * We can collect them with ->container_content and give
> @@ -1692,44 +1697,6 @@ static int reshape_array(char *container, int fd, char *devname,
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> -	if (reshape.backup_blocks == 0) {
> -		/* No restriping needed, but we might need to impose
> -		 * some more changes: layout, raid_disks, chunk_size
> -		 */
> -		if (info->new_layout != UnSet &&
> -		    info->new_layout != info->array.layout) {
> -			info->array.layout = info->new_layout;
> -			if (ioctl(fd, SET_ARRAY_INFO, &info->array) != 0) {
> -				fprintf(stderr, Name ": failed to set new layout\n");
> -				rv = 1;
> -			} else if (!quiet)
> -				printf("layout for %s set to %d\n",
> -				       devname, info->array.layout);
> -		}
> -		if (info->delta_disks != UnSet &&
> -		    info->delta_disks != 0) {
> -			info->array.raid_disks += info->delta_disks;
> -			if (ioctl(fd, SET_ARRAY_INFO, &info->array) != 0) {
> -				fprintf(stderr, Name ": failed to set raid disks\n");
> -				rv = 1;
> -			} else if (!quiet)
> -				printf("raid_disks for %s set to %d\n",
> -				       devname, info->array.raid_disks);
> -		}
> -		if (info->new_chunk != 0 &&
> -		    info->new_chunk != info->array.chunk_size) {
> -			if (sysfs_set_num(info, NULL,
> -					  "chunk_size", info->new_chunk) != 0) {
> -				fprintf(stderr, Name ": failed to set chunk size\n");
> -				rv = 1;
> -			} else if (!quiet)
> -				printf("chunk size for %s set to %d\n",
> -				       devname, info->array.chunk_size);
> -		}
> -
> -		return rv;
> -	}
> -
>  	/*
>  	 * There are three possibilities.
>  	 * 1/ The array will shrink.

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