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NeilBrown edbe83ab4c md/raid5: allow the stripe_cache to grow and shrink. 
The default setting of 256 stripe_heads is probably
much too small for many configurations.  So it is best to make it
auto-configure.

Shrinking the cache under memory pressure is easy.  The only
interesting part here is that we put a fairly high cost
('seeks') on shrinking the cache as the cost is greater than
just having to read more data, it reduces parallelism.

Growing the cache on demand needs to be done carefully.  If we allow
fast growth, that can upset memory balance as lots of dirty memory can
quickly turn into lots of memory queued in the stripe_cache.
It is important for the raid5 block device to appear congested to
allow write-throttling to work.

So we only add stripes slowly. We set a flag when an allocation
fails because all stripes are in use, allocate at a convenient
time when that flag is set, and don't allow it to be set again
until at least one stripe_head has been released for re-use.

This means that a spurt of requests will only cause one stripe_head
to be allocated, but a steady stream of requests will slowly
increase the cache size - until memory pressure puts it back again.

It could take hours to reach a steady state.

The value written to, and displayed in, stripe_cache_size is
used as a minimum.  The cache can grow above this and shrink back
down to it.  The actual size is not directly visible, though it can
be deduced to some extent by watching stripe_cache_active.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-04-22 08:00:43 +10:00
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bcache md/bcache: use generic io stats accounting functions to simplify io stat accounting 2014-11-24 08:05:12 -07:00
persistent-data - Significant dm-crypt CPU scalability performance improvements thanks 2015-02-21 13:28:45 -08:00
bitmap.c md-cluster: re-add capabilities 2015-04-22 07:59:39 +10:00
bitmap.h md-cluster: re-add capabilities 2015-04-22 07:59:39 +10:00
dm-bio-prison.c dm bio prison: introduce support for locking ranges of blocks 2014-11-10 15:25:30 -05:00
dm-bio-prison.h dm bio prison: introduce support for locking ranges of blocks 2014-11-10 15:25:30 -05:00
dm-bio-record.h dm: Refactor for new bio cloning/splitting 2013-11-23 22:33:55 -08:00
dm-bufio.c dm bufio: fix time comparison to use time_after_eq() 2015-02-09 13:06:48 -05:00
dm-bufio.h dm snapshot: use dm-bufio prefetch 2014-01-14 23:23:03 -05:00
dm-builtin.c dm sysfs: fix a module unload race 2014-01-14 23:23:04 -05:00
dm-cache-block-types.h dm cache: revert "remove remainder of distinct discard block size" 2014-11-10 15:25:30 -05:00
dm-cache-metadata.c dm cache: fix missing ERR_PTR returns and handling 2015-01-28 09:59:20 -05:00
dm-cache-metadata.h dm cache: revert "remove remainder of distinct discard block size" 2014-11-10 15:25:30 -05:00
dm-cache-policy-cleaner.c dm cache: policy change version from string to integer set 2013-03-20 17:21:27 +00:00
dm-cache-policy-internal.h dm cache: add remove_cblock method to policy interface 2013-11-11 11:37:50 -05:00
dm-cache-policy-mq.c dm cache policy mq: simplify ability to promote sequential IO to the cache 2014-11-10 15:25:30 -05:00
dm-cache-policy.c dm cache: add policy name to status output 2014-01-16 13:44:11 -05:00
dm-cache-policy.h dm cache: add policy name to status output 2014-01-16 13:44:11 -05:00
dm-cache-target.c - Most significant change this cycle is request-based DM now supports 2015-02-12 16:36:31 -08:00
dm-crypt.c dm crypt: sort writes 2015-02-16 11:11:15 -05:00
dm-delay.c Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
dm-era-target.c dm era: check for a non-NULL metadata object before closing it 2014-06-03 13:44:08 -04:00
dm-exception-store.c dm: replace simple_strtoul 2012-07-27 15:07:59 +01:00
dm-exception-store.h
dm-flakey.c block: Abstract out bvec iterator 2013-11-23 22:33:47 -08:00
dm-io.c dm io: deal with wandering queue limits when handling REQ_DISCARD and REQ_WRITE_SAME 2015-02-27 14:53:32 -05:00
dm-ioctl.c dm ioctl: fix stale comment above dm_get_inactive_table() 2015-02-09 13:06:48 -05:00
dm-kcopyd.c dm: stop using WQ_NON_REENTRANT 2013-08-23 09:02:13 -04:00
dm-linear.c block: Abstract out bvec iterator 2013-11-23 22:33:47 -08:00
dm-log-userspace-base.c dm: use time_in_range() and time_after() 2015-02-09 13:06:48 -05:00
dm-log-userspace-transfer.c dm log userspace: fix memory leak in dm_ulog_tfr_init failure path 2014-10-05 20:03:38 -04:00
dm-log-userspace-transfer.h
dm-log.c dm: use memweight() 2012-07-30 17:25:16 -07:00
dm-mpath.c dm mpath: simplify failure path of dm_multipath_init() 2015-02-09 13:06:49 -05:00
dm-mpath.h
dm-path-selector.c
dm-path-selector.h
dm-queue-length.c
dm-raid1.c dm mirror: do not degrade the mirror on discard error 2015-02-13 19:50:46 -05:00
dm-raid.c - Most significant change this cycle is request-based DM now supports 2015-02-12 16:36:31 -08:00
dm-region-hash.c block: Abstract out bvec iterator 2013-11-23 22:33:47 -08:00
dm-round-robin.c
dm-service-time.c
dm-snap-persistent.c dm snapshot: remove unnecessary NULL checks before vfree() calls 2015-02-09 13:06:49 -05:00
dm-snap-transient.c
dm-snap.c dm snapshot: suspend merging snapshot when doing exception handover 2015-02-27 14:53:16 -05:00
dm-stats.c - Significant DM thin-provisioning performance improvements to meet 2014-12-08 21:10:03 -08:00
dm-stats.h dm: add statistics support 2013-09-05 20:46:06 -04:00
dm-stripe.c dm stripe: fix potential for leak in stripe_ctr error path 2014-10-10 22:05:18 -04:00
dm-switch.c dm switch: efficiently support repetitive patterns 2014-08-01 12:30:37 -04:00
dm-sysfs.c dm sysfs: fix a module unload race 2014-01-14 23:23:04 -05:00
dm-table.c dm: inherit QUEUE_FLAG_SG_GAPS flags from underlying queues 2015-02-11 10:25:46 -05:00
dm-target.c dm: allocate requests in target when stacking on blk-mq devices 2015-02-09 13:06:47 -05:00
dm-thin-metadata.c dm thin metadata: remove unused dm_pool_get_data_block_size() 2015-02-09 13:06:49 -05:00
dm-thin-metadata.h dm thin metadata: remove unused dm_pool_get_data_block_size() 2015-02-09 13:06:49 -05:00
dm-thin.c dm thin: fix to consistently zero-fill reads to unprovisioned blocks 2015-02-27 09:59:12 -05:00
dm-uevent.c
dm-uevent.h
dm-verity.c dm verity: fix biovecs hash calculation regression 2014-04-15 12:19:24 -04:00
dm-zero.c dm crypt, dm zero: update author name following legal name change 2014-07-10 16:44:14 -04:00
dm.c dm: fix add_disk() NULL pointer due to race with free_dev() 2015-03-23 18:14:00 -04:00
dm.h dm table: train hybrid target type detection to select blk-mq if appropriate 2015-02-09 13:06:47 -05:00
faulty.c md: rename ->stop to ->free 2015-02-04 08:35:52 +11:00
Kconfig Create a separate module for clustering support 2015-02-23 07:28:42 -06:00
linear.c md: rename ->stop to ->free 2015-02-04 08:35:52 +11:00
linear.h
Makefile Create a separate module for clustering support 2015-02-23 07:28:42 -06:00
md-cluster.c md-cluster: re-add capabilities 2015-04-22 07:59:39 +10:00
md-cluster.h md-cluster: re-add capabilities 2015-04-22 07:59:39 +10:00
md.c md: allow resync to go faster when there is competing IO. 2015-04-22 08:00:40 +10:00
md.h md: remove 'go_faster' option from ->sync_request() 2015-04-22 08:00:40 +10:00
multipath.c md: rename ->stop to ->free 2015-02-04 08:35:52 +11:00
multipath.h
raid0.c md raid0: access mddev->queue (request queue member) conditionally because it is not set when accessed from dm-raid 2015-04-22 08:00:41 +10:00
raid0.h
raid1.c md: remove 'go_faster' option from ->sync_request() 2015-04-22 08:00:40 +10:00
raid1.h md: make ->congested robust against personality changes. 2015-02-04 08:35:52 +11:00
raid5.c md/raid5: allow the stripe_cache to grow and shrink. 2015-04-22 08:00:43 +10:00
raid5.h md/raid5: allow the stripe_cache to grow and shrink. 2015-04-22 08:00:43 +10:00
raid10.c md: remove 'go_faster' option from ->sync_request() 2015-04-22 08:00:40 +10:00
raid10.h md: make ->congested robust against personality changes. 2015-02-04 08:35:52 +11:00