write paths within RAIDframe. They also resolve the "panics with
RAID 5 sets with more than 3 components" issue which was present
(briefly) in the commits which were previously supposed to address
the malloc() issue.
With this new code the 5-component RAID 5 set panics are now gone.
It is also now also possible to swap to RAID 5.
The changes made are:
1) Introduce rf_AllocStripeBuffer() and rf_FreeStripeBuffer() to
allocate/free one stripe's worth of space. rf_AllocStripeBuffer() is
used in rf_MapUnaccessedPortionOfStripe() where it is not sufficient to
allocate memory using just rf_AllocBuffer(). rf_FreeStripeBuffer() is
called from rf_FreeRaidAccDesc(), well after the DAG is finished.
2) Add a set of emergency "stripe buffers" to struct RF_Raid_s.
Arrange for their initialization in rf_Configure(). In low-memory
situations these buffers will be returned by rf_AllocStripeBuffer()
and re-populated by rf_FreeStripeBuffer().
3) Move RF_VoidPointerListElem_t *iobufs from the dagHeader into
into struct RF_RaidAccessDesc_s. This is more consistent with the
original code, and will not result in items being freed "too early".
4) Add a RF_RaidAccessDesc_t *desc to RF_DagHeader_s so that we have a
way to find desc->iobufs.
5) Arrange for desc in the DagHeader to be initialized in InitHdrNode().
6) Don't cleanup iobufs in rf_FreeDAG() -- the freeing is now delayed
until rf_FreeRaidAccDesc() (which is how the original code handled the
allocList, and for which there seem to be some subtle, undocumented
assumptions).
7) Rename rf_AllocBuffer2() to be rf_AllocBuffer() and remove the
former rf_AllocBuffer(). Fix all callers of rf_AllocBuffer().
(This was how it was *supposed* to be after the last time these
changes were made, before they were backed out).
8) Remove RF_IOBufHeader and all references to it.
9) Remove desc->cleanupList and all references to it.
Fixes PR#20191
RAID5 sets with more than 3 drives. Still need to figure out why
the original changes were losing, but need the version in tree reliable
first!
Huge THANKS to Juergen Hannken-Illjes for helping track down
the changes that were causing the lossage.
rf_dagutils.h... missed this one from yesterday. sorry folks :( ]
Change signature of rf_AllocBuffer() to take a dag_h and buffer size
instead of an PDA and an alloclist. This lets us do the vple dance
inside of rf_AllocBuffer().
Cleanup usage of rf_AllocIOBuffer() and use rf_AllocBuffer() instead.
Fix all uses of rf_AllocBuffer() to conform to the new way of doing
things.
used in the event that we can't malloc a buffer of the appropriate
size in the traditional way. rf_AllocIOBuffer() and rf_FreeIOBuffer()
deal with allocating/freeing these structures. These buffers are
stored in a list on the 'iobuf' list. iobuf_count keeps track of how
many buffers are available, and numEmergencyBuffers is the effective
"high-water" mark for the freelist. The buffers allocated by
rf_AllocIOBuffer() are stripe-unit sized, which is the maximum
size requested by any of the callers.
Add an iobufs entry to RF_DagHeader_s. Use it for keeping track of
buffers that get allocated from the free-list.
Add a "generic list" pool (VoidPointerListElement Pool) for elements
used to maintain a list of allocated memory. [It is somewhat less
than ideal to add another little pool to handle this...]
Teach rf_AllocBuffer() to use the new rf_AllocIOBuffer(). Modify
other Mallocs to use rf_AllocIOBuffer(), and to update dag_h->iobufs as
appropriate.
Update rf_FreeDAG() to handle cleanup of dag_h->iobufs.
While here, add some missing pool_destroy() calls for a number of pools.
With these changes, it should (in theory) be possible to swap on
RAID 5 sets again. That said, I've not had any success there yet --
but the last issue I saw at least wasn't in RAIDframe. :-}
[There is room for this code to become a bit more consise, but I
wanted to do a checkpoint here with something known to work :) ]
for RF_DagNode_t's. Scale the structure size based on RF_MAXCOL.
Use the new allocation method in InitNode(). Note that we can't get
rid of the mallocs in there until we can prove that this new
allocation method is a strict upper bound. Unless someone tries
running a RAID set with 40 components, the mallocs here shouldn't
shouldn't be an issue. (and if someone does make a set with 40 components
they will run into other issues with other constants long before
then)
Provide rf_AllocDAGNode() and rf_FreeDAGNode() to handle
allocation/freeing.
- Introduce a "nodes" linked list of RF_DagNode_t's into the DAG header.
Initialize nodes in InitHdrNode(). Arrange for nodes cleanup in rf_FreeDAG().
- Add a "list_next" to RF_DagNode_t to keep track of nodes on the
above "nodes" list. (This is distinct from the "next" field of
RF_DagNode_t, which keeps track of the firing order of nodes.)
"list_next" gets used in the cleanup routines, and in traversing
through a set of nodes that belong to a particular set of nodes
(e.g. those belonging to xorNodes for a given DAG).
- use rf_AllocDAGNode() instead of mallocs of variable-sized arrays of
RF_DagNode_t's. Mostly mechanical changes to convert the DAG construction
from "access nodes via an array index" to "access nodes via a 'nextnode'
pointer".
- rework a couple of tricky spots where assumptions about the node order
was being abused.
- performance remains consistent with performance before these changes.
[Thanks to Simon Burge (simonb at you.know.where) for looking over
the mechanical changes to make sure I didn't biff anything.]
dynamically allocated variable-sized array (dagArray). Convert code
to use the new linked list stuff instead of the array stuff (the ratio
of one dagList per stripe still applies). The big advantage is in
being able to more efficiently allocate the dagLists on-the-fly, and
not have to know the size(s) of the array beforehand.
the stuff that used to live in rf_types.h, rf_raidframe.h, rf_layout.h,
rf_netbsd.h, rf_raid.h, rf_decluster,h, and a few other places.
Believe it or not, when this is all done, things will be cleaner.
No functional changes to RAIDframe.
out-dated comments, and other unneeded stuff. This helps prepare
for cleaning up the rest of the code, and adding new functionality.
No functional changes to the kernel code in this commit.
Carnegie Mellon University. Full RAID implementation, including
levels 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, parity logging, and a few other goodies.
Ported to NetBSD by Greg Oster.
