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Author SHA1 Message Date
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
e08ec03778 Extend GEOM Gate class to handle read I/O requests directly within the kernel.
This will allow HAST to read directly from the local component without
even communicating userland daemon.

Sponsored by:	Panzura, http://www.panzura.com
MFC after:	1 month
2012-07-04 20:16:28 +00:00
Mikolaj Golub
baf63f65ae In g_gate_create() there is a window between when g_gate_softc is
registered in g_gate_units array and when its sc_provider field is
filled. If during this period g_gate_units is accessed by another
thread that is checking for provider name collision the crash is
possible.

Fix this by adding sc_name field to struct g_gate_softc. In
g_gate_create() when g_gate_softc is created but sc_provider is still
not sc_name points to provider name stored in the local array.

Approved by:	pjd (mentor)
Reported by:	Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
MFC after:	1 week
2011-03-27 19:56:55 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
32115b105a Please welcome HAST - Highly Avalable Storage.
HAST allows to transparently store data on two physically separated machines
connected over the TCP/IP network. HAST works in Primary-Secondary
(Master-Backup, Master-Slave) configuration, which means that only one of the
cluster nodes can be active at any given time. Only Primary node is able to
handle I/O requests to HAST-managed devices. Currently HAST is limited to two
cluster nodes in total.

HAST operates on block level - it provides disk-like devices in /dev/hast/
directory for use by file systems and/or applications. Working on block level
makes it transparent for file systems and applications. There in no difference
between using HAST-provided device and raw disk, partition, etc. All of them
are just regular GEOM providers in FreeBSD.

For more information please consult hastd(8), hastctl(8) and hast.conf(5)
manual pages, as well as http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/HAST.

Sponsored by:	FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by:	OMCnet Internet Service GmbH
Sponsored by:	TransIP BV
2010-02-18 23:16:19 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
fc024f7a45 Bump copyright year. 2006-09-08 10:20:44 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
7ffb6e0f6a Fix problems with destroy and forcible destroy functionality:
- hold/release device in start/done routines, this will probably slow
  down things a bit, but previous code was racy;
- only release device if g_gate_destroy() failed - if it succeeded device
  is dead and there is nothing to release;
- various other changes which makes forcible destruction reliable.

MFC after:	3 days
2006-09-05 21:56:00 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
38ea96ac99 Remove trailing spaces. 2006-02-01 12:06:01 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
84436f14c4 Add CANCEL command which allows to remove one request from the queue or
all requests from the queue if request number is not given.

Bump version number.

Approved by:	re (scottl)
2005-07-08 21:08:53 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
0218292cdf Update copyright in files changed this year. 2005-02-16 22:14:52 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
e35d3a7828 - Remove g_gate_hold()/g_gate_release() from start/done paths. It saves
4 mutex operations per I/O requests.
- Use only one mutex to protect both (incoming and outgoing) queue.
  As MUTEX_PROFILING(9) shows, there is no big contention for this lock.
- Protect sc_queue_count with queue mutex, instead of doing atomic
  operations on it.
- Remove DROP_GIANT()/PICKUP_GIANT() - ggate is marked as MPSAFE and no
  Giant there.
2005-02-09 08:29:39 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
37c9eaae29 Prefer signed type over unsigned to be able to assert negative
reference count.
2004-05-03 21:02:02 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
0d785336d1 Make it compile on 64-bit architectures.
The biggest issue was that 16-bit atomic operations aren't supported
on all architectures.
2004-05-02 17:57:49 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
fe27e77251 Kernel bits of GEOM Gate. 2004-04-30 16:08:12 +00:00