Access skb_headlen() once in tx flow
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acces skb_shinfo(skb) once in tx flow.
Also, rename @i variable to @i_frag to avoid confusion, as the "goto
tx_drop_unmap;" relied on this @i variable.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
mlx4_en_process_tx_cq() carefully fetches and writes ring->last_nr_txbb
and ring->cons only one time to avoid false sharing
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
mlx4_en_free_tx_desc() uses a prefetchw(&skb->users) to speed up
consume_skb()
prefetchw(&ring->tx_queue->dql) to speed up BQL update
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add frag0_dma/frag0_byte_count into mlx4_en_tx_info to avoid a cache
line miss in TX completion for frames having one dma element. (We avoid
reading back the tx descriptor)
Note this could be extended to 2/3 dma elements later, as we have free
room in mlx4_en_tx_info
Also, mlx4_en_free_tx_desc() no longer accesses skb_shinfo(). We use a
new nr_maps fields in mlx4_en_tx_info to avoid 2 or 3 cache misses.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Try to allocate using kmalloc_node() first, only on failure use
vmalloc()
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- doorbell_qpn is stored in the cpu_to_be32() way to avoid bswap() in fast
path.
- mdev->mr.key stored in ring->mr_key to also avoid bswap() and access to
cold cache line.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reorganize struct mlx4_en_tx_ring to have:
- One cache line containing last_nr_txbb & cons & wake_queue, used by tx
completion.
- One cache line containing fields dirtied by mlx4_en_xmit()
- Following part is read mostly and shared by cpus.
Align struct mlx4_en_tx_info to a cache line
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- Remove unused variable ring->poll_cnt
- No need to set some fields if using blueflame
- Add missing const's
- Use unlikely
- Remove unneeded new line
- Make some comments more precise
- struct mlx4_bf @offset field reduced to unsigned int to save space
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Standard qdisc API to setup a timer implies an atomic operation on every
packet dequeue : qdisc_unthrottled()
It turns out this is not really needed for FQ, as FQ has no concept of
global qdisc throttling, being a qdisc handling many different flows,
some of them can be throttled, while others are not.
Fix is straightforward : add a 'bool throttle' to
qdisc_watchdog_schedule_ns(), and remove calls to qdisc_unthrottled()
in sch_fq.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When fec_enet_alloc_buffers() fails we should better undo the previous actions,
which consists of: disabling the FEC clocks and putting the FEC pins into
inactive state.
The error path for fec_enet_mii_probe() is kept unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
MDIO_BCM_UNIMAC needs HAS_IOMEM, so depend on it, the related error (
with allmodconfig under um):
MODPOST 1205 modules
ERROR: "devm_ioremap" [drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.ko] undefined!
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Its unfortunate we have to walk again skb list to find the tail
after segmentation, even if data is probably hot in cpu caches.
skb_segment() can store the tail of the list into segs->prev,
and validate_xmit_skb_list() can immediately get the tail.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Andy Zhou says:
====================
Add Geneve tunnel protocol support
This patch series adds kernel support for Geneve (Generic Network
Virtualization Encapsulation) based on Geneve IETF draft:
http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-gross-geneve-01.txt
Patch 1 implements Geneve tunneling protocol driver
Patch 2-6 adds openvswitch support for creating and using
Geneve tunnels by OVS user space.
v1->v2: Style fixes: use tab instead space for Kconfig
Patch 2-6 are reviewed by Pravin Shetty, add him to acked-by
Patch 6 was reviewed by Thomas Graf when commiting
to openvswitch.org, add him to acked-by.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The Openvswitch implementation is completely agnostic to the options
that are in use and can handle newly defined options without
further work. It does this by simply matching on a byte array
of options and allowing userspace to setup flows on this array.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Singed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatteka@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@noironetworks.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As the size of the flow key grows, it can put some pressure on the
stack. This is particularly true in ovs_flow_cmd_set(), which needs several
copies of the key on the stack. One of those uses is logically separate,
so this factors it out to reduce stack pressure and improve readibility.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently, the flow information that is matched for tunnels and
the tunnel data passed around with packets is the same. However,
as additional information is added this is not necessarily desirable,
as in the case of pointers.
This adds a new structure for tunnel metadata which currently contains
only the existing struct. This change is purely internal to the kernel
since the current OVS_KEY_ATTR_IPV4_TUNNEL is simply a compressed version
of OVS_KEY_ATTR_TUNNEL that is translated at flow setup.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Some tunnel formats have mechanisms for indicating that packets are
OAM frames that should be handled specially (either as high priority or
not forwarded beyond an endpoint). This provides support for allowing
those types of packets to be matched.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As new protocols are added, the size of the flow key tends to
increase although few protocols care about all of the fields. In
order to optimize this for hashing and matching, OVS uses a variable
length portion of the key. However, when fields are extracted from
the packet we must still zero out the entire key.
This is no longer necessary now that OVS implements masking. Any
fields (or holes in the structure) which are not part of a given
protocol will be by definition not part of the mask and zeroed out
during lookup. Furthermore, since masking already uses variable
length keys this zeroing operation automatically benefits as well.
In principle, the only thing that needs to be done at this point
is remove the memset() at the beginning of flow. However, some
fields assume that they are initialized to zero, which now must be
done explicitly. In addition, in the event of an error we must also
zero out corresponding fields to signal that there is no valid data
present. These increase the total amount of code but very little of
it is executed in non-error situations.
Removing the memset() reduces the profile of ovs_flow_extract()
from 0.64% to 0.56% when tested with large packets on a 10G link.
Suggested-by: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This adds a device level support for Geneve -- Generic Network
Virtualization Encapsulation. The protocol is documented at
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-01
Only protocol layer Geneve support is provided by this driver.
Openvswitch can be used for configuring, set up and tear down
functional Geneve tunnels.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently association restarts do not take into consideration the
state of the socket. When a restart happens, the current assocation
simply transitions into established state. This creates a condition
where a remote system, through a the restart procedure, may create a
local association that is no way reachable by user. The conditions
to trigger this are as follows:
1) Remote does not acknoledge some data causing data to remain
outstanding.
2) Local application calls close() on the socket. Since data
is still outstanding, the association is placed in SHUTDOWN_PENDING
state. However, the socket is closed.
3) The remote tries to create a new association, triggering a restart
on the local system. The association moves from SHUTDOWN_PENDING
to ESTABLISHED. At this point, it is no longer reachable by
any socket on the local system.
This patch addresses the above situation by moving the newly ESTABLISHED
association into SHUTDOWN-SENT state and bundling a SHUTDOWN after
the COOKIE-ACK chunk. This way, the restarted associate immidiately
enters the shutdown procedure and forces the termination of the
unreachable association.
Reported-by: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
reproduce:
wget https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git/plain/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
git checkout 1b7bde6d65
make.cross ARCH=m68k m5275evb_defconfig
make.cross ARCH=m68k
All error/warnings:
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c: In function 'fec_enet_rx_queue':
>> drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c:1470:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'prefetch' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
prefetch(skb->data - NET_IP_ALIGN);
^
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
missed included prefetch.h
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
bcmgenet_mii_setup() is called from the PHY state machine every 1-2 seconds
when the PHYs are in PHY_POLL mode.
Improve bcmgenet_mii_setup() so that it touches the MAC registers only when
the link is up and there was a change to link, speed, duplex, or pause status.
Signed-off-by: Petri Gynther <pgynther@google.com>
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Walter Lozano says:
====================
Altera TSE with no PHY
In some scenarios there is no PHY chip present, for example in optical links.
This serie of patches moves PHY get addr and MDIO create to a new function and
avoids PHY and MDIO probing in these cases.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch avoids PHY and MDIO probing if no PHY chip is present.
This is the case mainly in optical links where there is no need for
PHY chip, and therefore no need of MDIO. In this scenario Ethernet
MAC is directly connected to an optical module through an external
SFP transceiver.
Signed-off-by: Walter Lozano <walter@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Move PHY get addr and MDIO create to a new function to improve readability
and make it easier to avoid its usage. This will be useful for example in
the case where there is no PHY chip.
Signed-off-by: Walter Lozano <walter@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
John W. Linville says:
====================
pull request: wireless-next 2014-10-03
Please pull tihs batch of updates intended for the 3.18 stream!
For the iwlwifi bits, Emmanuel says:
"I have here a few things that depend on the latest mac80211's changes:
RRM, TPC, Quiet Period etc... Eyal keeps improving our rate control
and we have a new device ID. This last patch should probably have
gone to wireless.git, but at that stage, I preferred to send it to
-next and CC stable."
For (most of) the Atheros bits, Kalle says:
"The only new feature is testmode support from me. Ben added a new method
to crash the firmware with an assert for debug purposes. As usual, we
have lots of smaller fixes from Michal. Matteo fixed a Kconfig
dependency with debugfs. I fixed some warnings recently added to
checkpatch."
For the NFC bits, Samuel says:
"We've had major updates for TI and ST Microelectronics drivers, and a
few NCI related changes.
For TI's trf7970a driver:
- Target mode support for trf7970a
- Suspend/resume support for trf7970a
- DT properties additions to handle different quirks
- A bunch of fixes for smartphone IOP related issues
For ST Microelectronics' ST21NFCA and ST21NFCB drivers:
- ISO15693 support for st21nfcb
- checkpatch and sparse related warning fixes
- Code cleanups and a few minor fixes
Finally, Marvell added ISO15693 support to the NCI stack, together with a
couple of NCI fixes."
For the Bluetooth bits, Johan says:
"This 3.18 pull request replaces the one I did on Monday ("bluetooth-next
2014-09-22", which hasn't been pulled yet). The additions since the last
request are:
- SCO connection fix for devices not supporting eSCO
- Cleanups regarding the SCO establishment logic
- Remove unnecessary return value from logging functions
- Header compression fix for 6lowpan
- Cleanups to the ieee802154/mrf24j40 driver
Here's a copy from previous request that this one replaces:
'
Here are some more patches for 3.18. They include various fixes to the
btusb HCI driver, a fix for LE SMP, as well as adding Jukka to the
MAINTAINERS file for generic 6LoWPAN (as requested by Alexander Aring).
I've held on to this pull request a bit since we were waiting for a SCO
related fix to get sorted out first. However, since the merge window is
getting closer I decided not to wait for it. If we do get the fix sorted
out there'll probably be a second small pull request later this week.
'"
And,
"Unless 3.17 gets delayed this will probably be our last -next pull request for
3.18. We've got:
- New Marvell hardware supportr
- Multicast support for 6lowpan
- Several of 6lowpan fixes & cleanups
- Fix for a (false-positive) lockdep warning in L2CAP
- Minor btusb cleanup"
On top of all that comes the usual sort of updates to ath5k, ath9k,
ath10k, brcmfmac, mwifiex, and wil6210. This time around there are
also a number of rtlwifi updates to enable some new hardware and
to reconcile the in-kernel drivers with some newer releases of the
Realtek vendor drivers. Also of note is some device tree work for
the bcma bus.
Please let me know if there are problems!
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pablo Neira Ayuso says:
====================
Netfilter/IPVS updates for net-next
The following patchset contains another batch with Netfilter/IPVS updates
for net-next, they are:
1) Add abstracted ICMP codes to the nf_tables reject expression. We
introduce four reasons to reject using ICMP that overlap in IPv4
and IPv6 from the semantic point of view. This should simplify the
maintainance of dual stack rule-sets through the inet table.
2) Move nf_send_reset() functions from header files to per-family
nf_reject modules, suggested by Patrick McHardy.
3) We have to use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER) everywhere in the
code now that br_netfilter can be modularized. Convert remaining spots
in the network stack code.
4) Use rcu_barrier() in the nf_tables module removal path to ensure that
we don't leave object that are still pending to be released via
call_rcu (that may likely result in a crash).
5) Remove incomplete arch 32/64 compat from nft_compat. The original (bad)
idea was to probe the word size based on the xtables match/target info
size, but this assumption is wrong when you have to dump the information
back to userspace.
6) Allow to filter from prerouting and postrouting in the nf_tables bridge.
In order to emulate the ebtables NAT chains (which are actually simple
filter chains with no special semantics), we have support filtering from
this hooks too.
7) Add explicit module dependency between xt_physdev and br_netfilter.
This provides a way to detect if the user needs br_netfilter from
the configuration path. This should reduce the breakage of the
br_netfilter modularization.
8) Cleanup coding style in ip_vs.h, from Simon Horman.
9) Fix crash in the recently added nf_tables masq expression. We have
to register/unregister the notifiers to clean up the conntrack table
entries from the module init/exit path, not from the rule addition /
deletion path. From Arturo Borrero.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Vladislav Yasevich says:
====================
bridge: Add vlan filtering support for default pvid
This series adds default pvid support to vlan filtering in the bridge.
VLAN 1 (as recommended by 802.1q spec) is used as default pvid on ports.
Then the user can over-ride this configuration by configuring their
own vlan information.
The user can additionally change the default value through the
sysfs interface (netlink coming shortly).
The user can turn off default pvid functionality by setting default
pvid to 0.
This series changes the default behavior of the bridge when
vlan filtering is turned on. Currently, ports without any vlan
filtering configured will not recevie any traffic at all. This patch
changes the behavior of the above ports to receive only untagged traffic.
Since v3:
- allocated 'changed' bitmap on the heap and re-arrange code to clean it up.
- remove extra blank lines.
- Fix patch1 to build by itself.
- Fix error recover to not add vlan 0.
- Restructure nbp_vlan_init to remove uneeded variable.
Since v2:
- Fix handling of invalid values in sysfs interface.
- Add some additional log messages.
- Fix default_pvid handling when vlan filtering is compiled out.
- Fix sparse issues with new code.
- Fix how we located the old default pvid (added a helper function).
Since v1:
- Add ability to turn off default_pvid settings.
- Drop the automiatic filtering support based on configured vlan devices (will
be its own series)
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently when vlan filtering is turned on on the bridge, the bridge
will drop all traffic untill the user configures the filter. This
isn't very nice for ports that don't care about vlans and just
want untagged traffic.
A concept of a default_pvid was recently introduced. This patch
adds filtering support for default_pvid. Now, ports that don't
care about vlans and don't define there own filter will belong
to the VLAN of the default_pvid and continue to receive untagged
traffic.
This filtering can be disabled by setting default_pvid to 0.
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently, if the pvid is not set, we return an illegal vlan value
even though the pvid value is set to 0. Since pvid of 0 is currently
invalid, just return 0 instead. This makes the current and future
checks simpler.
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch allows the user to set and retrieve default_pvid
value. A new value can only be stored when vlan filtering
is disabled.
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signedness bugs may occur when using signed char for bitops,
depending on if the highest bit is ever used.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tilman Schmidt says:
====================
ISDN patches for net-next
Here's a series of patches for the ISDN CAPI subsystem and the
Gigaset ISDN driver. Please merge via net-next.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use function usb_endpoint_num() for the bulk endpoint and store
the endpoint number in the cardstate structure instead of the raw
endpoint address value.
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Field int_in_endpointAddr was set but never used. Drop it.
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Avoid cascading warnings when leaving DLE mode fails by clearing
the DLE flag before entering recovery.
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The last branch in command_2_index() cannot be reached since
c==0xff is already caught by the first "if".
The empty second branch makes no difference since no other branch
will be taken for c<0x0f.
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Antoine Tenart says:
====================
net: spider_net: fix possible bitops errors
Dan reported a possible signedness issue on the pxa168_eth driver. While
having a look at it, I came across a similar problem in the spider_net
driver.
Here is one proposal to fix it. The first patch rework the
spider_net_set_mac() function by removing the spider_net_get_mac_address()
call and using memcpy() to set netdev->dev_addr (which is what's done in
lots of Ethernet drivers) and the second one fix the actual signedness
issue.
If for any reason you really want to keep a call to
spider_net_get_mac_address() because the memcpy() is somehow not good
enough here, we can also come up with a solution involving a temporary
unsigned char variable.
I couldn't test these changes, so please do.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signedness bugs may occur when using signed char for bitops,
depending on if the highest bit is ever used.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch removes the spider_net_get_mac_address() call at the end of
the spider_net_set_mac() function. The dev->dev_addr is instead updated
with a memcpy() from sa->sa_data.
Since spider_net_get_mac_address() is not used anywhere else, this patch
also removes the function.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
After the packet is successfully sent, we should not touch the packet
as it may have been freed. This patch is based on the work done by
Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>.
David, please queue this up for stable.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Reported-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If cn_add_callback() fails in dm_ulog_tfr_init(), it does not
deallocate prealloced memory but calls cn_del_callback().
Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
When __scan frees the required number of buffer entries that the
shrinker requested (nr_to_scan becomes zero) it must return. Before
this fix the __scan code exited only the inner loop and continued in the
outer loop -- which could result in reduced performance due to extra
buffers being freed (e.g. unnecessarily evicted thinp metadata needing
to be synchronously re-read into bufio's cache).
Also, move dm_bufio_cond_resched to __scan's inner loop, so that
iterating the bufio client's lru lists doesn't result in scheduling
latency.
Reported-by: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.2+
The 'last_accessed' member of the dm_buffer structure was only set when
the the buffer was created. This led to each buffer being discarded
after dm_bufio_max_age time even if it was used recently. In practice
this resulted in all thinp metadata being evicted soon after being read
-- this is particularly problematic for metadata intensive workloads
like multithreaded small random IO.
'last_accessed' is now updated each time the buffer is moved to the head
of the LRU list, so the buffer is now properly discarded if it was not
used in dm_bufio_max_age time.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.2+
In case of RAID levels 4, 5 and 6 we have to verify each RAID members'
ability to zero data on discards to avoid stripe data corruption -- if
discard_zeroes_data is not set for each RAID member discard support must
be disabled. But given the uncertainty of whether or not a RAID member
properly supports zeroing data on discard we require the user to
explicitly allow discard support on RAID levels 4, 5, and 6 by setting
a dm-raid module paramter, e.g.: dm-raid.devices_handle_discard_safely=Y
Otherwise, discards could cause data corruption on RAID4/5/6.
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Discard support is not enabled for RAID levels 4, 5, and 6 at this time
due to concerns about unreliable discard_zeroes_data support on some
hardware. Otherwise, discards could cause stripe data corruption
(classic example of bad apples spoiling the bunch).
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
