Thread (27 messages) 27 messages, 4 authors, 2017-03-03

Re: [md PATCH 02/14] md/raid5: simplfy delaying of writes while metadata is updated.

From: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Date: 2017-02-16 17:37:57

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 03:39:01PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
If a device fails during a write, we must ensure the failure is
recorded in the metadata before the completion of the write is
acknowleged.

Commit c3cce6cda162 ("md/raid5: ensure device failure recorded before
write request returns.")  added code for this, but it was
unnecessarily complicated.  We already had similar functionality for
handling updates to the bad-block-list, thanks to Commit de393cdea66c
("md: make it easier to wait for bad blocks to be acknowledged.")

So revert most of the former commit, and instead avoid collecting
completed writes if MD_CHANGE_PENDING is set.  raid5d() will then flush
the metadata and retry the stripe_head.

We check MD_CHANGE_PENDING *after* analyse_stripe() as it could be set
asynchronously.  After analyse_stripe(), we have collected stable data
about the state of devices, which will be used to make decisions.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <redacted>
---
 drivers/md/raid5.c |   27 ++++-----------------------
 drivers/md/raid5.h |    3 ---
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index 760b726943c9..154593e0afbe 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -4492,7 +4492,8 @@ static void handle_stripe(struct stripe_head *sh)
 	if (test_bit(STRIPE_LOG_TRAPPED, &sh->state))
 		goto finish;
 
-	if (s.handle_bad_blocks) {
+	if (s.handle_bad_blocks ||
+	    test_bit(MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING, &conf->mddev->sb_flags)) {
 		set_bit(STRIPE_HANDLE, &sh->state);
 		goto finish;
 	}
This part is fragile. We don't delay it and post it to handle list again. So
the raid5d/worker could run this stripe infinitely.

Thanks,
Shaohua
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