From c72758f33784e5e2a1a4bb9421ef3e6de8f9fcf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 17:17:53 -0400 Subject: block: Export I/O topology for block devices and partitions To support devices with physical block sizes bigger than 512 bytes we need to ensure proper alignment. This patch adds support for exposing I/O topology characteristics as devices are stacked. logical_block_size is the smallest unit the device can address. physical_block_size indicates the smallest I/O the device can write without incurring a read-modify-write penalty. The io_min parameter is the smallest preferred I/O size reported by the device. In many cases this is the same as the physical block size. However, the io_min parameter can be scaled up when stacking (RAID5 chunk size > physical block size). The io_opt characteristic indicates the optimal I/O size reported by the device. This is usually the stripe width for arrays. The alignment_offset parameter indicates the number of bytes the start of the device/partition is offset from the device's natural alignment. Partition tools and MD/DM utilities can use this to pad their offsets so filesystems start on proper boundaries. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/genhd.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/genhd.h') diff --git a/include/linux/genhd.h b/include/linux/genhd.h index a1a28caed23d..149fda264c86 100644 --- a/include/linux/genhd.h +++ b/include/linux/genhd.h @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ struct disk_stats { struct hd_struct { sector_t start_sect; sector_t nr_sects; + sector_t alignment_offset; struct device __dev; struct kobject *holder_dir; int policy, partno; -- cgit v1.2.3