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Commit 07e83364 authored by Song Liu's avatar Song Liu Committed by Shaohua Li
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md/r5cache: shift complex rmw from read path to write path



Write back cache requires a complex RMW mechanism, where old data is
read into dev->orig_page for prexor, and then xor is done with
dev->page. This logic is already implemented in the write path.

However, current read path is not awared of this requirement. When
the array is optimal, the RMW is not required, as the data are
read from raid disks. However, when the target stripe is degraded,
complex RMW is required to generate right data.

To keep read path as clean as possible, we handle read path by
flushing degraded, in-journal stripes before processing reads to
missing dev.

Specifically, when there is read requests to a degraded stripe
with data in journal, handle_stripe_fill() calls
r5c_make_stripe_write_out() and exits. Then handle_stripe_dirtying()
will do the complex RMW and flush the stripe to RAID disks. After
that, read requests are handled.

There is one more corner case when there is non-overwrite bio for
the missing (or out of sync) dev. handle_stripe_dirtying() will not
be able to process the non-overwrite bios without constructing the
data in handle_stripe_fill(). This is fixed by delaying non-overwrite
bios in handle_stripe_dirtying(). So handle_stripe_fill() works on
these bios after the stripe is flushed to raid disks.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
parent a85dd7b8
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