linux/include
Christoph Hellwig 5f1b670d0b block, dm: don't copy bios for request clones
Currently dm-multipath has to clone the bios for every request sent
to the lower devices, which wastes cpu cycles and ties down memory.

This patch instead adds a new REQ_CLONE flag that instructs req_bio_endio
to not complete bios attached to a request, which we set on clone
requests similar to bios in a flush sequence.  With this change I/O
errors on a path failure only get propagated to dm-multipath, which
can then either resubmit the I/O or complete the bios on the original
request.

I've done some basic testing of this on a Linux target with ALUA support,
and it survives path failures during I/O nicely.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-05-22 08:58:57 -06:00
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acpi ACPICA: remove duplicate u8 typedef 2015-04-28 23:58:54 +02:00
asm-generic TTY/Serial patches for 4.1-rc1 2015-04-21 09:33:10 -07:00
clocksource
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2015-04-15 10:42:15 -07:00
drm Merge tag 'topic/drm-misc-2015-04-15' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel into drm-next 2015-04-16 08:34:24 +10:00
dt-bindings Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma 2015-04-24 09:49:37 -07:00
keys
kvm KVM/ARM changes for v4.1: 2015-04-07 18:09:20 +02:00
linux block, dm: don't copy bios for request clones 2015-05-22 08:58:57 -06:00
math-emu
media Merge branch 'patchwork' into v4l_for_linus 2015-04-21 06:12:35 -03:00
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misc
net net/bonding: Make DRV macros private 2015-04-26 22:59:53 -04:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma
rxrpc RxRPC: Handle VERSION Rx protocol packets 2015-04-01 16:31:26 +01:00
scsi SCSI: add 1024 max sectors black list flag 2015-04-27 09:38:06 -07:00
soc
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.1 2015-04-30 19:08:06 +02:00
target Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2015-04-24 10:22:09 -07:00
trace Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-04-26 17:22:07 -07:00
uapi nbd: stop using req->cmd 2015-05-05 13:40:44 -06:00
video fbdev changes for v4.1 2015-04-20 15:16:25 -07:00
xen xenbus_client: Extend interface to support multi-page ring 2015-04-15 10:56:47 +01:00
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