It is quite specific mode of operation without storing on-disk metadata.
It can be useful in some cases in combination with some external control
tools handling mirror creation and disks hot-plug.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Introduce internal counter to track opens. Using provider's counters is
not very successfull after calling g_wither_provider().
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
This fixes the problem, when gmirror starts again just after stop.
The problem occurs when gmirror's component has geom label with equal size.
E.g. gpt and gptid have the same size as partition, diskid has the same
size as entire disk. When gmirror's geom has been destroyed, glabel
creates its providers and this initiate retaste.
Now "gmirror destroy" command is available. It destroys geom and also
erases gmirror's metadata.
MFC after: 2 weeks
When safety requirements are met, it allows to avoid passing I/O requests
to GEOM g_up/g_down thread, executing them directly in the caller context.
That allows to avoid CPU bottlenecks in g_up/g_down threads, plus avoid
several context switches per I/O.
The defined now safety requirements are:
- caller should not hold any locks and should be reenterable;
- callee should not depend on GEOM dual-threaded concurency semantics;
- on the way down, if request is unmapped while callee doesn't support it,
the context should be sleepable;
- kernel thread stack usage should be below 50%.
To keep compatibility with GEOM classes not meeting above requirements
new provider and consumer flags added:
- G_CF_DIRECT_SEND -- consumer code meets caller requirements (request);
- G_CF_DIRECT_RECEIVE -- consumer code meets callee requirements (done);
- G_PF_DIRECT_SEND -- provider code meets caller requirements (done);
- G_PF_DIRECT_RECEIVE -- provider code meets callee requirements (request).
Capable GEOM class can set them, allowing direct dispatch in cases where
it is safe. If any of requirements are not met, request is queued to
g_up or g_down thread same as before.
Such GEOM classes were reviewed and updated to support direct dispatch:
CONCAT, DEV, DISK, GATE, MD, MIRROR, MULTIPATH, NOP, PART, RAID, STRIPE,
VFS, ZERO, ZFS::VDEV, ZFS::ZVOL, all classes based on g_slice KPI (LABEL,
MAP, FLASHMAP, etc).
To declare direct completion capability disk(9) KPI got new flag equivalent
to G_PF_DIRECT_SEND -- DISKFLAG_DIRECT_COMPLETION. da(4) and ada(4) disk
drivers got it set now thanks to earlier CAM locking work.
This change more then twice increases peak block storage performance on
systems with manu CPUs, together with earlier CAM locking changes reaching
more then 1 million IOPS (512 byte raw reads from 16 SATA SSDs on 4 HBAs to
256 user-level threads).
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
MFC after: 2 months
we need to pass BIO_DELETE requests down to providers that support
it. Also, we need to announce our support for BIO_DELETE to upper
consumer. This requires:
- In g_mirror_start() return true for "GEOM::candelete" request.
- In g_mirror_init_disk() probe below provider for "GEOM::candelete"
attribute, and mark disk with a flag if it does support BIO_DELETE.
- In g_mirror_register_request() distribute BIO_DELETE requests only
to those disks, that do support it.
Note that we announce "GEOM::candelete" as true unconditionally of
whether we have TRIM-capable media down below or not. This is made
intentionally, because upper consumer (usually UFS) requests the
attribite only once at mount time. And if user ever migrates his
mirror from HDDs to SSDs, then he/she would get TRIM working without
remounting filesystem.
Reviewed by: pjd
- Instead of measuring last request execution time for each drive and
choosing one with smallest time, use averaged number of requests, running
on each drive. This information is more accurate and timely. It allows to
distribute load between drives in more even and predictable way.
- For each drive track offset of the last submitted request. If new request
offset matches previous one or close for some drive, prefer that drive.
It allows to significantly speedup simultaneous sequential reads.
PR: kern/113885
Reviewed by: sobomax
gmirror and graid3 in a way that it is not resynchronized after a
power failure or system crash.
It is safe when gjournal is running on top of gmirror/graid3.
which means that devices will be destroyed on last close.
This fixes destruction order problems when, eg. RAID3 array is build on
top of RAID1 arrays.
Requested, reviewed and tested by: ru
MFC after: 2 weeks
requests in parallel.
+ Add kern.geom.mirror.sync_requests tunable which defines how many parallel
I/O requests should be used.
+ Retire kern.geom.mirror.reqs_per_sync and kern.geom.mirror.syncs_per_sec
sysctls.
- Fix race between regular and synchronization requests.
- Reimplement mirror's data synchronization - do not use the topology lock
for this purpose, as it may case deadlocks.
- Stop synchronization from pre-sync hook.
- Fix some other minor issues.
MFC after: 3 days
to preserve currect behaviour). When set to 0, components are not
disconnected - gmirror will try to still use them (only first error will
be logged). This is helpful when we have two broken components, but in
different places, so actually all data is available.
Such buggy component will be visible in 'gmirror list' output with flag
BROKEN.
- Never disconnect the last valid component. If we detect errors there we
will just pass them up. This wasn't reasonable to deny access to the
whole provider because of one broken sector.
Prodded by: ru
MFC after: 3 days
shared-last-sector problem.
After this change, even if there is more than one provider with the same
last sector, the proper one will be chosen based on its size.
It still doesn't fix the 'c' partition problem (when da0s1 can be confused
with da0s1c) and situation when 'a' partition starts at offset 0
(then da0s1a can be confused with da0s1 and da0s1c). One can use '-h'
option there, when creating device or avoid sharing last sector.
Actually, when providers share the same last sector and their size is equal,
they provide exactly the same data, so the name (da0s1, da0s1a, da0s1c)
isn't important at all.
- Provide backward compatibility.
- Update copyright's year.
MFC after: 1 week
After this change, when component is disconnected because of an I/O error,
it will not be connected and synchronized automatically, it will be logged
as broken and skipped. Autosynchronization can occur, when component is
disconnected (on orphan event) and connected again - there were no I/O
error, so there is no need to not connected the component, but when there were
writes while it wasn't connected, it will be synchronized.
This fix cases, when component is disconnected because of I/O error and can be
connected again and again.
- Bump version number.
- Add version change history.
- Implement backward compatibility mechanism. After this change when metadata in
old version is detected, it is automatically upgraded to the new (current)
version.
- Fix for good (I hope) force-stopping mirrors and some filure cases
(e.g. the last good component dies when synchronization is in progress).
Don't use ->nstart/->nend consumer's fields, as this could be racy,
because those fields are used in g_down/g_up, use ->index consumer's
field instead for tracking number of not finished requests.
Reported by: marcel
- After 5 seconds of idle time (this should be configurable) mark all
dirty providers as clean, so when mirror is not used in 5 seconds
and there will be power failure, no synchronization on boot is needed.
Idea from: sorry, I can't find who suggested this
- When there are no ACTIVE components and no NEW components destroy whole
mirror, not only provider.
- Fix one debug to show information about I/O request, before we change
its command.
- Remove kern.geom.mirror.sync_block_size sysctl. It is quite obvious that we
want to use the biggest size possible.
- Do not use UMA zone for sync data allocations. There could be only one
synchronization request per synchronized disk at a time, so allocate memory
for one request on whole synchronization process related to one disk.
Tested by synchronizing one component (out of three) and by synchronizing
two components (out of three) in parallel.
It allows to fix problems when last provider's sector is shared between few
providers.
- Bump version number for CONCAT and STRIPE and add code for backward
compatibility.
- Do not bump version number of MIRROR, as it wasn't officially introduced yet.
Even if someone started to play with it, there is no big deal, because
wrong MD5 sum of metadata will deny those providers.
- Update manual pages.
- Add version history to g_(stripe|concat).h files.
consumer and 'bio_pflags' which can be used by provider.
- Remove BIO_FLAG1 and BIO_FLAG2 flags. From now on new fields should be
used for internal flags.
- Update g_bio(9) manual page.
- Update some comments.
- Update GEOM_MIRROR, which was the only one using BIO_FLAGs.
Idea from: phk
Reviewed by: phk
features. The gmirror(8) utility should be used for control of this class.
There is no manual page yet, but I'm working on it with keramida@.
Many useful tests provided by: simon (thank you!)
Some ideas from: scottl, simon, phk
