Provided sector_t is 64 bits, reduce the in-memory footprint of the
snapshot exception table by the simple method of using unused bits of
the chunk number to combine consecutive entries.
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Use new KMEM_CACHE() macro and make the newly-exposed structure names more
meaningful. Also remove some superfluous casts and inlines (let a modern
compiler be the judge).
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a workqueue so that I/O can be queued up to be flushed from a separate
thread (e.g. if local interrupts are disabled).
A new per-snapshot spinlock pe_lock is introduced to protect queued_bios.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The chunk size of snapshots cannot be changed so it is redundant to require it
as a parameter when activating an existing snapshot. Allow a value of zero in
this case and ignore it. For a new snapshot, use a default value if zero is
specified.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Move snapshot metadata loading to happen when the table is created instead of
when the device is resumed. Writes to the origin device don't trigger
exceptions until each snapshot table becomes active when resume() is called on
each snapshot.
If you're using lvm2, for this patch to work properly you should update to
lvm2 version 2.02.01 or later and device-mapper version 1.02.02 or later.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Milan Broz