From: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
"axboe@kernel.dk" <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] Add TRIM support for raid linear/0/1/10
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:47:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F6006C3.4010204@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120314132422.3aeb6d49@notabene.brown>
On 3/14/12 10:24 AM, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:04:12 +0800 Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> wrote:
>
> > The patches add TRIM support for raid linear/0/1/10. I'll add TRIM
support for
> > raid 4/5/6 later. The implementation is pretty straightforward and
> > self-explained.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Shaohua
>
> Thanks.
> They look mostly OK.
>
> In raid0.c, I think you'll need to change
>
> /* Sanity check -- queue functions should prevent this happening */
> if (bio->bi_vcnt != 1 ||
> bio->bi_idx != 0)
> goto bad_map;
>
> to also allow for 'bi_vcnt == 0' like you did in bio_split.
>
> Also I wonder about handling failure in RAID1.
> I think the code will currently treat it like a write error, and
> maybe record a bad block (then fail the device is writing the badblock
> record fails). Is that what were want?
Mainly to simplify the code. And I thought a normal discard should not fail.
If it fails, something is wrong, marked it as badblock maybe not bad.
> And of course resync/recovery will mess up the discarded sector
information,
> so this isn't a complete solution for RAID1. But it is a reasonable start.
Yes, this is a mess. Looks impossible without ondisk format change at
first glance.
Thanks,
Shaohua
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-14 2:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-12 3:04 [patch 0/7] Add TRIM support for raid linear/0/1/10 Shaohua Li
2012-03-12 3:04 ` [patch 1/7] block: makes bio_split support bio without data Shaohua Li
2012-03-12 3:04 ` [patch 2/7] md: linear supports TRIM Shaohua Li
2012-03-12 3:04 ` [patch 3/7] md: raid 0 " Shaohua Li
2012-03-12 3:04 ` [patch 4/7] md: raid 1 " Shaohua Li
2012-03-12 3:04 ` [patch 5/7] md: raid 10 " Shaohua Li
2012-03-12 3:04 ` [patch 6/7] blk: add plug for blkdev_issue_discard Shaohua Li
2012-03-13 15:51 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-13 17:04 ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-03-13 17:14 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-13 17:19 ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-03-12 3:04 ` [patch 7/7] blk: use correct sectors limitation for discard request Shaohua Li
2012-03-13 16:00 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-12 3:18 ` [patch 0/7] Add TRIM support for raid linear/0/1/10 Roberto Spadim
2012-03-12 18:22 ` Holger Kiehl
[not found] ` <4F5EFEB6.4060402@kernel.org>
2012-03-13 12:22 ` Holger Kiehl
2012-03-13 14:15 ` Shaohua Li
2012-03-13 14:58 ` Roberto Spadim
2012-03-13 15:44 ` Holger Kiehl
2012-03-14 1:30 ` Shaohua Li
2012-03-14 10:25 ` Holger Kiehl
2012-03-14 11:14 ` Shaohua Li
2012-03-14 11:32 ` Shaohua Li
2012-03-14 21:01 ` Holger Kiehl
2012-03-14 21:13 ` Holger Kiehl
2012-03-15 2:39 ` Shaohua Li
2012-03-15 9:08 ` Holger Kiehl
2012-03-16 2:19 ` Shaohua Li
[not found] ` <4F5EA8E9.5010502@fusionio.com>
2012-03-14 2:25 ` NeilBrown
2012-03-14 2:24 ` NeilBrown
2012-03-14 2:47 ` Shaohua Li [this message]
2012-03-17 18:14 ` Mark Lord
2012-03-18 2:03 ` Shaohua Li
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