When the Partial Parity Log is enabled, circular buffer is used to store
PPL data. Each write to RAID device causes overwrite of data in this buffer
so some write_hint can be set to those request to help drives handle
garbage collection. This patch adds new sysfs attribute which can be used
to specify which write_hint should be assigned to PPL.
Acked-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Dabrowski <mariusz.dabrowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Add 'consistency_policy' attribute for array. It indicates how the array
maintains consistency in case of unexpected shutdown.
Add 'ppl_sector' and 'ppl_size' for rdev, which describe the location
and size of the PPL space on the device. They can't be changed for
active members if the array is started and PPL is enabled, so in the
setter functions only basic checks are performed. More checks are done
in ppl_validate_rdev() when starting the log.
These attributes are writable to allow enabling PPL for external
metadata arrays and (later) to enable/disable PPL for a running array.
Signed-off-by: Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
I'm starting document of the raid5-cache feature. Please note this is a
kernel doc instead of a mdadm manual, so I don't add the details about
how to use the feature in mdadm side.
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Place README, REPORTING-BUGS, SecurityBugs and kernel-parameters
on an user's manual book.
As we'll be numbering the user's manual, remove the manual
numbering from SecurityBugs.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Mariusz Dabrowski