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authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>2011-08-02 12:32:04 +0100
committerAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>2011-08-02 12:32:04 +0100
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dm: ignore merge_bvec for snapshots when safe
Add a new flag DMF_MERGE_IS_OPTIONAL to struct mapped_device to indicate whether the device can accept bios larger than the size its merge function returns. When set, use this to send large bios to snapshots which can split them if necessary. Snapshot I/O may be significantly fragmented and this approach seems to improve peformance. Before the patch, dm_set_device_limits restricted bio size to page size if the underlying device had a merge function and the target didn't provide a merge function. After the patch, dm_set_device_limits restricts bio size to page size if the underlying device has a merge function, doesn't have DMF_MERGE_IS_OPTIONAL flag and the target doesn't provide a merge function. The snapshot target can't provide a merge function because when the merge function is called, it is impossible to determine where the bio will be remapped. Previously this led us to impose a 4k limit, which we can now remove if the snapshot store is located on a device without a merge function. Together with another patch for optimizing full chunk writes, it improves performance from 29MB/s to 40MB/s when writing to the filesystem on snapshot store. If the snapshot store is placed on a non-dm device with a merge function (such as md-raid), device mapper still limits all bios to page size. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.h b/drivers/md/dm.h
index 1aaf16746da8..6745dbd278a4 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.h
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.h
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ int dm_table_alloc_md_mempools(struct dm_table *t);
void dm_table_free_md_mempools(struct dm_table *t);
struct dm_md_mempools *dm_table_get_md_mempools(struct dm_table *t);
+int dm_queue_merge_is_compulsory(struct request_queue *q);
+
void dm_lock_md_type(struct mapped_device *md);
void dm_unlock_md_type(struct mapped_device *md);
void dm_set_md_type(struct mapped_device *md, unsigned type);