According to Anton Blanchard:
> Peter Chubb mailed a fix for this to linux-kernel in the last week
> and I can confirm it fixes all my raid0 problems. Thanks Peter!
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103369952814053&w=2
Indeed it works. I'm running it on 2.5.41-mm1; here's the
adjusted patch.
linux-2.5.41-mm1-raid0.patch
--- linux-2.5.41-mm1/drivers/md/raid0.c.orig Tue Oct 8 23:56:14 2002
+++ linux-2.5.41-mm1/drivers/md/raid0.c Wed Oct 9 00:00:58 2002
@@ -162,6 +162,29 @@
return 1;
}
+/**
+ * raid0_mergeable_bvec -- tell bio layer if a two requests can be merged
+ * @q: request queue
+ * @bio: the buffer head that's been built up so far
+ * @biovec: the request that could be merged to it.
+ *
+ * Return 1 if the merge is not permitted (because the
+ * result would cross a chunk boundary), 0 otherwise.
+ */
+static int raid0_mergeable_bvec(request_queue_t *q, struct bio *bio, struct bio_vec *biovec)
+{
+ mddev_t *mddev = q->queuedata;
+ sector_t block;
+ unsigned int chunk_size;
+ unsigned int bio_sz;
+
+ chunk_size = mddev->chunk_size >> 10;
+ block = bio->bi_sector >> 1;
+ bio_sz = (bio->bi_size + biovec->bv_len) >> 10;
+
+ return chunk_size < ((block & (chunk_size - 1)) + bio_sz);
+}
+
static int raid0_run (mddev_t *mddev)
{
unsigned cur=0, i=0, nb_zone;
@@ -233,6 +256,8 @@
conf->hash_table[i++].zone1 = conf->strip_zone + cur;
size -= (conf->smallest->size - zone0_size);
}
+ blk_queue_max_sectors(&mddev->queue, mddev->chunk_size >> 9);
+ blk_queue_merge_bvec(&mddev->queue, raid0_mergeable_bvec);
return 0;
out_free_zone_conf:
@@ -262,13 +287,6 @@
return 0;
}
-/*
- * FIXME - We assume some things here :
- * - requested buffers NEVER bigger than chunk size,
- * - requested buffers NEVER cross stripes limits.
- * Of course, those facts may not be valid anymore (and surely won't...)
- * Hey guys, there's some work out there ;-)
- */
static int raid0_make_request (request_queue_t *q, struct bio *bio)
{
mddev_t *mddev = q->queuedata;
@@ -291,8 +309,8 @@
hash = conf->hash_table + x;
}
- /* Sanity check */
- if (chunk_size < (block & (chunk_size - 1)) + (bio->bi_size >> 10))
+ /* Sanity check -- queue functions should prevent this happening */
+ if (unlikely(chunk_size < (block & (chunk_size - 1)) + (bio->bi_size >> 10)))
goto bad_map;
if (!hash)
-
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