linux-toradex.git/include/linux/dm-io.h, branch v4.16-rc4

block: better op and flags encoding

2016-10-28T14:48:16+00:00

Now that we don't need the common flags to overflow outside the range
of a 32-bit type we can encode them the same way for both the bio and
request fields.  This in addition allows us to place the operation
first (and make some room for more ops while we're at it) and to
stop having to shift around the operation values.

In addition this allows passing around only one value in the block layer
instead of two (and eventuall also in the file systems, but we can do
that later) and thus clean up a lot of code.

Last but not least this allows decreasing the size of the cmd_flags
field in struct request to 32-bits.  Various functions passing this
value could also be updated, but I'd like to avoid the churn for now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

dm: use bio op accessors

2016-06-07T19:41:38+00:00

Separate the op from the rq_flag_bits and have dm
set/get the bio using bio_set_op_attrs/bio_op.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Convert drivers to immutable biovecs

2013-11-24T06:33:51+00:00

Now that we've got a mechanism for immutable biovecs -
bi_iter.bi_bvec_done - we need to convert drivers to use primitives that
respect it instead of using the bvec array directly.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: NeilBrown 
Cc: Alasdair Kergon 
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com

dm io: use fixed initial mempool size

2011-05-29T12:03:09+00:00

Replace the arbitrary calculation of an initial io struct mempool size
with a constant.

The code calculated the number of reserved structures based on the request
size and used a "magic" multiplication constant of 4.  This patch changes
it to reserve a fixed number - itself still chosen quite arbitrarily.
Further testing might show if there is a better number to choose.

Note that if there is no memory pressure, we can still allocate an
arbitrary number of "struct io" structures.  One structure is enough to
process the whole request.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: eliminate some holes data structures

2010-03-06T02:32:33+00:00

Eliminate a 4-byte hole in 'struct dm_io_memory' by moving 'offset' above the
'ptr' to which it applies (size reduced from 24 to 16 bytes).  And by
association, 1-4 byte hole is eliminated in 'struct dm_io_request' (size
reduced from 56 to 48 bytes).

Eliminate all 6 4-byte holes and 1 cache-line in 'struct dm_snapshot' (size
reduced from 392 to 368 bytes).

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: move include files

2008-04-25T12:26:55+00:00

Publish the dm-io, dm-log and dm-kcopyd headers in include/linux.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon