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authorPhilipp Reisner2012-02-20 21:53:28 +0100
committerPhilipp Reisner2012-11-08 16:58:31 +0100
commit9a51ab1c1b3c1e21f076cdd571bbe6ca7d1b504c (patch)
tree863ba573f9a803d5f64979dae566a89ea22bbe5f /drivers/block/drbd
parent26ec92871be1e6bd48d0be9ab38ee1ebbeea49f1 (diff)
drbd: New disk option al-updates
By disabling al-updates one might increase performace. The price for that is that in case a crashed primary (that had al-updates disabled) is reintegraded, it will receive a full-resync instead of a bitmap based resync. Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/drbd')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c12
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c17
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c
index 9eae28944312..83d48d210b69 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c
@@ -276,8 +276,16 @@ void drbd_al_begin_io(struct drbd_conf *mdev, struct drbd_interval *i)
/* Double check: it may have been committed by someone else,
* while we have been waiting for the lock. */
if (mdev->act_log->pending_changes) {
- al_write_transaction(mdev);
- mdev->al_writ_cnt++;
+ bool write_al_updates;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ write_al_updates = rcu_dereference(mdev->ldev->disk_conf)->al_updates;
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ if (write_al_updates) {
+ al_write_transaction(mdev);
+ mdev->al_writ_cnt++;
+ }
spin_lock_irq(&mdev->al_lock);
/* FIXME
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
index dc5bd6bbb280..c5d4fac1a111 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
@@ -1230,6 +1230,11 @@ int drbd_adm_disk_opts(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
mutex_unlock(&mdev->tconn->conf_update);
+ if (new_disk_conf->al_updates)
+ mdev->ldev->md.flags &= MDF_AL_DISABLED;
+ else
+ mdev->ldev->md.flags |= MDF_AL_DISABLED;
+
drbd_bump_write_ordering(mdev->tconn, WO_bdev_flush);
drbd_md_sync(mdev);
@@ -1545,7 +1550,9 @@ int drbd_adm_attach(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
} else if (dd == grew)
set_bit(RESYNC_AFTER_NEG, &mdev->flags);
- if (drbd_md_test_flag(mdev->ldev, MDF_FULL_SYNC)) {
+ if (drbd_md_test_flag(mdev->ldev, MDF_FULL_SYNC) ||
+ (test_bit(CRASHED_PRIMARY, &mdev->flags) &&
+ drbd_md_test_flag(mdev->ldev, MDF_AL_DISABLED))) {
dev_info(DEV, "Assuming that all blocks are out of sync "
"(aka FullSync)\n");
if (drbd_bitmap_io(mdev, &drbd_bmio_set_n_write,
@@ -1588,13 +1595,19 @@ int drbd_adm_attach(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
if (ns.disk == D_CONSISTENT &&
(ns.pdsk == D_OUTDATED || rcu_dereference(mdev->ldev->disk_conf)->fencing == FP_DONT_CARE))
ns.disk = D_UP_TO_DATE;
- rcu_read_unlock();
/* All tests on MDF_PRIMARY_IND, MDF_CONNECTED_IND,
MDF_CONSISTENT and MDF_WAS_UP_TO_DATE must happen before
this point, because drbd_request_state() modifies these
flags. */
+ if (rcu_dereference(mdev->ldev->disk_conf)->al_updates)
+ mdev->ldev->md.flags &= MDF_AL_DISABLED;
+ else
+ mdev->ldev->md.flags |= MDF_AL_DISABLED;
+
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
/* In case we are C_CONNECTED postpone any decision on the new disk
state after the negotiation phase. */
if (mdev->state.conn == C_CONNECTED) {