md/raid1: simplify the splitting of requests.

raid1 currently splits requests in two different ways for
two different reasons.

First, bio_split() is used to ensure the bio fits within a
resync accounting region.
Second, multiple r1bios are allocated for each bio to handle
the possiblity of known bad blocks on some devices.

This can be simplified to just use bio_split() once, and not
use multiple r1bios.
We delay the split until we know a maximum bio size that can
be handled with a single r1bio, and then split the bio and
queue the remainder for later handling.

This avoids all loops inside raid1.c request handling.  Just
a single read, or a single set of writes, is submitted to
lower-level devices for each bio that comes from
generic_make_request().

When the bio needs to be split, generic_make_request() will
do the necessary looping and call md_make_request() multiple
times.

raid1_make_request() no longer queues request for raid1 to handle,
so we can remove that branch from the 'if'.

This patch also creates a new private bio_set
(conf->bio_split) for splitting bios.  Using fs_bio_set
is wrong, as it is meant to be used by filesystems, not
block devices.  Using it inside md can lead to deadlocks
under high memory pressure.

Delete unused variable in raid1_write_request() (Shaohua)
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.h b/drivers/md/raid1.h
index 4271cd7ac2de..b0ab0da6e39e 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.h
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.h
@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ struct r1conf {
 	mempool_t		*r1bio_pool;
 	mempool_t		*r1buf_pool;
 
+	struct bio_set		*bio_split;
+
 	/* temporary buffer to synchronous IO when attempting to repair
 	 * a read error.
 	 */