From: Robin Dong <[email protected]>
We are now trying to modify flashcache(https://github.com/facebook/flashcache)
to make it request based so that
we can let cfq io-controller control the bandwidth between different
io cgroups.
A search in the dm directory tells me that only multipath is a request
based dm target and its functionality
is very simple and map_rq() is used to map the request to different underlying
devices.
We can't work in this way because:
1. the request which processed by map_rq() need to be issued to
different lower devices (disk device and cache device, in flashcache),
therefore the request
can't be totally remapped by simply changing its queue and returning
DM_MAPIO_REMAPPED in map_rq() like multipath_map()
2. to submit bios drectly in map_rq() (by return DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED) will cause
BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled())
in dm_request_fn() because the
submit_bio()->generic_make_request()->blk_queue_bio() will definitly call
spin_unlock_irq to enable the irqs
As above,the interface map_rq() provided by devcie-mapper framework
is not enough for an autonomous target, like flashcache.
We propose to add a new
mk_rq interface so that we can make the requests
by ourselves.
Signed-off-by: Robin Dong <[email protected]>
---
drivers/md/dm.c | 10 ++++++++++
include/linux/device-mapper.h | 3 +++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
index 4e09b6f..3ae67de 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -1459,11 +1459,21 @@ static int dm_request_based(struct mapped_device *md)
static void dm_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
{
struct mapped_device *md = q->queuedata;
+ struct dm_table *map = dm_get_live_table(md);
+ struct dm_target *ti = dm_table_find_target(map, bio->bi_sector);
+
+ if (ti->type->mk_rq) {
+ ti->type->mk_rq(ti, q, bio);
+ goto out;
+ }
if (dm_request_based(md))
blk_queue_bio(q, bio);
else
_dm_request(q, bio);
+
+out:
+ dm_table_put(map);
}
void dm_dispatch_request(struct request *rq)
diff --git a/include/linux/device-mapper.h b/include/linux/device-mapper.h
index 38d27a1..2386389 100644
--- a/include/linux/device-mapper.h
+++ b/include/linux/device-mapper.h
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ typedef int (*dm_map_fn) (struct dm_target *ti, struct bio
*bio,
union map_info *map_context);
typedef int (*dm_map_request_fn) (struct dm_target *ti, struct request *clone,
union map_info *map_context);
+typedef int (*dm_make_request_fn) (struct dm_target *ti,
+ struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio);
/*
* Returns:
@@ -136,6 +138,7 @@ struct target_type {
dm_dtr_fn dtr;
dm_map_fn map;
dm_map_request_fn map_rq;
+ dm_make_request_fn mk_rq;
dm_endio_fn end_io;
dm_request_endio_fn rq_end_io;
dm_presuspend_fn presuspend;
--
1.7.1
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