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    • Joe Thornber's avatar
      dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata · cc8394d8
      Joe Thornber authored 
      This patch implements two new messages that can be sent to the thin
pool target allowing it to take a snapshot of the _metadata_.  This,
read-only snapshot can be accessed by userland, concurrently with the
live target.

Only one metadata snapshot can be held at a time.  The pool's status
line will give the block location for the current msnap.

Since version 0.1.5 of the userland thin provisioning tools, the
thin_dump program displays the msnap as follows:

    thin_dump -m <msnap root> <metadata dev>

Available here: https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools

Now that userland can access the metadata we can do various things
that have traditionally been kernel side tasks:

     i) Incremental backups.

     By using metadata snapshots we can work out what blocks have
     changed over time.  Combined with data snapshots we can ensure
     the data doesn't change while we back it up.

     A short proof of concept script can be found here:

     https://github.com/jthornber/thinp-test-suite/blob/master/incremental_backup_example.rb

     ii) Migration of thin devices from one pool to another.

     iii) Merging snapshots back into an external origin.

     iv) Asyncronous replication.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      cc8394d8
    • Mike Snitzer's avatar
      dm thin: use slab mempools · a24c2569
      Mike Snitzer authored 
      Use dedicated caches prefixed with a "dm_" name rather than relying on
kmalloc mempools backed by generic slab caches so the memory usage of
thin provisioning (and any leaks) can be accounted for independently.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      a24c2569
    • Mikulas Patocka's avatar
      dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init · 35991652
      Mikulas Patocka authored 
      After the failure of a group of paths, any alternative paths that
need initialising do not become available until further I/O is sent to
the device.  Until this has happened, ioctls return -EAGAIN.

With this patch, new paths are made available in response to an ioctl
too.  The processing of the ioctl gets delayed until this has happened.

Instead of returning an error, we submit a work item to kmultipathd
(that will potentially activate the new path) and retry in ten
milliseconds.

Note that the patch doesn't retry an ioctl if the ioctl itself fails due
to a path failure.  Such retries should be handled intelligently by the
code that generated the ioctl in the first place, noting that some SCSI
commands should not be retried because they are not idempotent (XOR write
commands).  For commands that could be retried, there is a danger that
if the device rejected the SCSI command, the path could be errorneously
marked as failed, and the request would be retried on another path which
might fail too.  It can be determined if the failure happens on the
device or on the SCSI controller, but there is no guarantee that all
SCSI drivers set these flags correctly.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      35991652
    • Mike Christie's avatar
      dm mpath: delay retry of bypassed pg · f220fd4e
      Mike Christie authored 
      If I/O needs retrying and only bypassed priority groups are available,
set the pg_init_delay_retry flag to wait before retrying.

If, for example, the reason for the bypass is that the controller is
getting reset or there is a firmware upgrade happening, retrying right
away would cause a flood of log messages and retries for what could be a
few seconds or even several minutes.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Acked-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      f220fd4e
    • Mike Snitzer's avatar
      dm mpath: reduce size of struct multipath · 1fbdd2b3
      Mike Snitzer authored 
      Move multipath structure's 'lock' and 'queue_size' members to eliminate
two 4-byte holes.  Also use a bit within a single unsigned int for each
existing flag (saves 8-bytes).  This allows future flags to be added
without each consuming an unsigned int.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      1fbdd2b3
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