On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:15:16 +0300 Alexander Lyakas <alex.bolshoy@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi Neil,
> below is a bit less-ugly version of the patch.
> Thanks,
> Alex.
>
> >From 05cf800d623bf558c99d542cf8bf083c85b7e5d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Alex Lyakas <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:55:00 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] When RAID5 is dirty, force reconstruct-write instead of
> read-modify-write.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Lyakas <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yair Hershko <yair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/ubuntu_kmodules/Ubuntu-3.2.0-25.40/drivers/md/raid5.c
> b/ubuntu_kmodules/Ubuntu-3.2.0-25.40/drivers/md/raid5.c
> index 5332202..0702785 100644
> --- a/ubuntu_kmodules/Ubuntu-3.2.0-25.40/drivers/md/raid5.c
> +++ b/ubuntu_kmodules/Ubuntu-3.2.0-25.40/drivers/md/raid5.c
> @@ -2555,12 +2555,36 @@ static void handle_stripe_dirtying(struct r5conf *conf,
> int disks)
> {
> int rmw = 0, rcw = 0, i;
> - if (conf->max_degraded == 2) {
> - /* RAID6 requires 'rcw' in current implementation
> - * Calculate the real rcw later - for now fake it
> + sector_t recovery_cp = conf->mddev->recovery_cp;
> + unsigned long recovery = conf->mddev->recovery;
> + int needed = test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &recovery);
> + int resyncing = test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_SYNC, &recovery) &&
> + !test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_REQUESTED, &recovery) &&
> + !test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_CHECK, &recovery);
> + int transitional = test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &recovery) &&
> + !test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_SYNC, &recovery) &&
> + !test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RECOVER, &recovery) &&
> + !test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_DONE, &recovery) &&
> + !test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RESHAPE, &recovery);
Thanks Alex,
however I don't understand why you want to test all of these bits.
Isn't it enough just to check ->recovery_cp ??
> +
> + /* RAID6 requires 'rcw' in current implementation.
> + * Otherwise, attempt to check whether resync is now happening
> + * or should start.
> + * If yes, then the array is dirty (after unclean shutdown or
> + * initial creation), so parity in some stripes might be inconsistent.
> + * In this case, we need to always do reconstruct-write, to ensure
> + * that in case of drive failure or read-error correction, we
> + * generate correct data from the parity.
> + */
> + if (conf->max_degraded == 2 ||
> + (recovery_cp < MaxSector && sh->sector >= recovery_cp &&
> + (needed || resyncing || transitional))) {
> + /* Calculate the real rcw later - for now fake it
> * look like rcw is cheaper
Also, we should probably fix this comment. s/fake/make/
Thanks,
NeilBrown
> */
> rcw = 1; rmw = 2;
> + pr_debug("force RCW max_degraded=%u, recovery_cp=%lu
> sh->sector=%lu recovery=0x%lx\n",
> + conf->max_degraded, recovery_cp, sh->sector, recovery);
> } else for (i = disks; i--; ) {
> /* would I have to read this buffer for read_modify_write */
> struct r5dev *dev = &sh->dev[i];
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