linux-toradex.git/include/linux/raid/linear.h, branch v4.4.2

md: move headers out of include/linux/raid/

2009-03-31T03:27:03+00:00

Move the headers with the local structures for the disciplines and
bitmap.h into drivers/md/ so that they are more easily grepable for
hacking and not far away.  md.h is left where it is for now as there
are some uses from the outside.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: Convert remaining 1k representations in linear.c to sectors.

2008-10-13T00:55:12+00:00

This patch renames hash_spacing and preshift to  spacing and
sector_shift respectively with the following change of semantics:

Case 1: (sizeof(sector_t) <= sizeof(u32)).
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In this case, we have sector_shift = preshift = 0 and spacing =
2 * hash_spacing.

Hence, the index for the hash table which is computed by the new code
in which_dev() as sector / spacing equals the old value which was
(sector/2) / hash_spacing.

Note also that the value of nb_zone stays the same because both sz
and base double.

Case 2: (sizeof(sector_t) > sizeof(u32)).
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

(aka the shifting dance case). Here we have sector_shift = preshift +
1 and

spacing = 2 * hash_spacing

during the computation of nb_zone and curr_sector, but

spacing = hash_spacing

in which_dev() because in the last hunk of the patch for linear.c we
shift down conf->spacing (= 2 * hash_spacing) by one more bit than
in the old code.

Hence in the computation of nb_zone, sz and base have the same value
as before, so nb_zone is not affected. Also curr_sector in the next
hunk stays the same.

In which_dev() the hash table index is computed as

(sector >> sector_shift) / spacing

In view of sector_shift = preshift + 1 and spacing = hash_spacing,
this equals

((sector/2) >> preshift) / hash_spacing

which is the value computed by the old code.

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: linear: Represent dev_info->size and dev_info->offset in sectors.

2008-10-13T00:55:12+00:00

Rename them to num_sectors and start_sector which is more descriptive.

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: linear: Make array_size sector-based and rename it to array_sectors.

2008-07-21T07:05:25+00:00

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

[PATCH] md: allow a linear array to have drives added while active

2006-06-26T16:58:37+00:00

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] md: support md/linear array with components greater than 2 terabytes.

2005-09-09T23:39:10+00:00

linear currently uses division by the size of the smallest componenet device
to find which device a request goes to.  If that smallest device is larger
than 2 terabytes, then the division will not work on some systems.

So we introduce a pre-shift, and take care not to make the hash table too
large, much like the code in raid0.

Also get rid of conf->nr_zones, which is not needed.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-16T22:20:36+00:00

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!