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>
This commit is contained in:
Philipp Reisner 2012-02-20 21:53:28 +01:00
parent 26ec92871b
commit 9a51ab1c1b
5 changed files with 30 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -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

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@ -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) {

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@ -338,6 +338,7 @@ extern const char *drbd_set_st_err_str(enum drbd_state_rv);
#define MDF_PEER_OUT_DATED (1 << 5)
#define MDF_CRASHED_PRIMARY (1 << 6)
#define MDF_AL_CLEAN (1 << 7)
#define MDF_AL_DISABLED (1 << 8)
enum drbd_uuid_index {
UI_CURRENT,

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@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ GENL_struct(DRBD_NLA_DISK_CONF, 3, disk_conf,
__flg_field_def(19, DRBD_GENLA_F_MANDATORY, md_flushes, DRBD_MD_FLUSHES_DEF)
__u32_field_def(20, DRBD_GENLA_F_MANDATORY, disk_timeout, DRBD_DISK_TIMEOUT_DEF)
__u32_field_def(21, 0 /* OPTIONAL */, read_balancing, DRBD_READ_BALANCING_DEF)
/* 9: __u32_field_def(22, DRBD_GENLA_F_MANDATORY, unplug_watermark, DRBD_UNPLUG_WATERMARK_DEF) */
__flg_field_def(23, 0 /* OPTIONAL */, al_updates, DRBD_AL_UPDATES_DEF)
)
GENL_struct(DRBD_NLA_RESOURCE_OPTS, 4, res_opts,
@ -168,6 +170,7 @@ GENL_struct(DRBD_NLA_NET_CONF, 5, net_conf,
__flg_field_def(27, DRBD_GENLA_F_MANDATORY, always_asbp, DRBD_ALWAYS_ASBP_DEF)
__flg_field(28, DRBD_GENLA_F_MANDATORY | DRBD_F_INVARIANT, tentative)
__flg_field_def(29, DRBD_GENLA_F_MANDATORY, use_rle, DRBD_USE_RLE_DEF)
/* 9: __u32_field_def(30, DRBD_GENLA_F_MANDATORY, fencing_policy, DRBD_FENCING_DEF) */
)
GENL_struct(DRBD_NLA_SET_ROLE_PARMS, 6, set_role_parms,

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@ -210,6 +210,7 @@
#define DRBD_DISK_DRAIN_DEF 1
#define DRBD_MD_FLUSHES_DEF 1
#define DRBD_TCP_CORK_DEF 1
#define DRBD_AL_UPDATES_DEF 1
#define DRBD_ALLOW_TWO_PRIMARIES_DEF 0
#define DRBD_ALWAYS_ASBP_DEF 0