defined by the SNIA Common RAID Disk Data Format Specification v2.0.
Supports multiple volumes per array and multiple partitions per disk.
Supports standard big-endian and Adaptec's little-endian byte ordering.
Supports all single-layer RAID levels. Dual-layer RAID levels except
RAID10 are not supported now because of GEOM RAID design limitations.
Some work is still to be done, but the present code already manages basic
interoperation with RAID BIOS of the Adaptec 1430SA SATA RAID controller.
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
- Implement "configure" command to allow switching operation mode of
running device on-fly without destroying and recreation.
- Implement Active/Read mode as hybrid of Active/Active and Active/Passive.
In this mode all paths not marked FAIL may handle reads same time,
but unlike Active/Active only one path handles write requests at any
point in time. It allows to closer follow original write request order
if above layers need it for data consistency (not waiting for requisite
write completion before sending dependent write).
- Hide duplicate messages about device status change.
- Remove periodic thread wake up with 10Hz rate.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
accounting for I/O counts at completion of I/O operation. Also switch
from using global devmtx to vnode mutex to reduce contention.
Suggested and reviewed by: kib
to enable the collection of counts of synchronous and asynchronous
reads and writes for its associated filesystem. The counts are
displayed using `mount -v'.
Ensure that buffers used for paging indicate the vnode from
which they are operating so that counts of paging I/O operations
from the filesystem are collected.
This checkin only adds the setting of the mount point for the
UFS/FFS filesystem, but it would be trivial to add the setting
and clearing of the mount point at filesystem mount/unmount
time for other filesystems too.
Reviewed by: kib
KLD is preloaded with loader(8) and leads to infinity loops.
Also do not return EEXIST error code from MOD_LOAD handler, because
we have undocumented(?) ability replace kernel's module with preloaded one.
And if we have so, then preloaded module will be initialized first.
Thus error in MOD_LOAD handler will be triggered for the kernel.
PR: kern/165573
MFC after: 3 weeks
scheme. The LDM is a logical volume manager for MS Windows NT and it
is also known as dynamic volumes. It supports about 2000 partitions
and also provides the capability for software RAID implementations.
This version implements only partitioning scheme capability and based
on the linux-ntfs project documentation and several publications across
the Web. NOTE: JBOD, RAID0 and RAID5 volumes aren't supported.
An access to the LDM metadata is read-only. When LDM is on the disk
partitioned with MBR we can also destroy metadata. For the GPT
partitioned disks destroy action is not supported.
Reviewed by: ivoras (previous version)
MFC after: 1 month
It's not clear to a user what they should do after seeing the "geometry
does not match label" kernel message, and it does not appear to present
a problem in practice. Thus, just remove the messages.
Approved by: marcel
types 0x05 and 0x0f, but 0x05 is preferred and used when partition is
created with "gpart add -t ebr ...".
This should keep EBR partitions accessible after r231754 for those,
who have EBR on the partition with type 0x0f.
don't try probe and create EBR scheme when parent partition type
is not "ebr". This fixes error messages about corrupted EBR for
some partitions where is actually another partition scheme.
NOTE: if you have EBR on the partition with different than "ebr"
(0x05) type, then you will lost access to partitions until it will be
changed.
MFC after: 2 weeks
mnt_noasync counter to temporary remove MNTK_ASYNC mount option, which
is needed to guarantee a synchronous completion of the initiated i/o
before syscall or VOP return. Global removal of MNTK_ASYNC option is
harmful because not only i/o started from corresponding thread becomes
synchronous, but all i/o is synchronous on the filesystem which is
initiated during sync(2) or syncer activity.
Instead of removing MNTK_ASYNC from mnt_kern_flag, provide a local
thread flag to disable async i/o for current thread only. Use the
opportunity to move DOINGASYNC() macro into sys/vnode.h and
consistently use it through places which tested for MNTK_ASYNC.
Some testing demonstrated 60-70% improvements in run time for the
metadata-intensive operations on async-mounted UFS volumes, but still
with great deviation due to other reasons.
Reviewed by: mckusick
Tested by: scottl
MFC after: 2 weeks
primitives by breaking stop_scheduler into a per-thread variable.
Also, store the new td_stopsched very close to td_*locks members as
they will be accessed mostly in the same codepaths as td_stopsched and
this results in avoiding a further cache-line pollution, possibly.
STOP_SCHEDULER() was pondered to use a new 'thread' argument, in order to
take advantage of already cached curthread, but in the end there should
not really be a performance benefit, while introducing a KPI breakage.
In collabouration with: flo
Reviewed by: avg
MFC after: 3 months (or never)
X-MFC: r228424
as the system dump device. This was already allowed for GPT. The Linux
swap metadata at the beginning of the partition should not be disturbed
because the crash dump is written at the end.
Reviewed by: alfred, pjd, marcel
MFC after: 2 weeks
have reserved free space in the APM area.
Also instead of one write request per each APM entry, use MAXPHY
sized writes when we are updating APM.
MFC after: 1 month
Before r215687, if some withered geom or provider could not be destroyed,
g_event thread went to sleep for 0.1s before retrying. After that change
it is just restarting immediately. r227009 made orphaned (withered) provider
to not detach immediately, but only after context switch. That made loop
inside g_event thread infinite on UP systems without PREEMPTION.
To address original problem with possible dead lock addressed by r227009
we have to fix r215687 change first, that needs some time to think and test.
- Improved locking and destruction process to fix crashes.
- Improved "automatic" configuration method to make it consistent and safe
by reading metadata back from all specified paths after writing to one.
- Added provider size check to reduce chance of ordering conflict with
other GEOM classes.
- Added "manual" configuration method without using on-disk metadata.
- Added "add" and "remove" commands to allow manage paths manually.
- Failed paths are no longer dropped from geom, but only marked as FAIL
and excluded from I/O operations.
- Automatically restore failed paths when all others paths are marked
as failed, for example, because of device-caused (not transport) errors.
- Added "fail" and "restore" commands to manually control FAIL flag.
- geom is now destroyed on last path disconnection.
- Added optional Active/Active mode support. Unlike Active/Passive
mode, load evenly distributed between all working paths. If supported by
the device, it allows to significantly improve performance, utilizing
bandwidth of all paths. It is controlled by -A option during creation.
Disabled by default now.
- Improved `status` and `list` commands output.
Sponsored by: iXsystems, inc.
MFC after: 1 month
The SYSCTL_NODE macro defines a list that stores all child-elements of
that node. If there's no SYSCTL_DECL macro anywhere else, there's no
reason why it shouldn't be static.
