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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/dm-kcopyd.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/dm-kcopyd.h | 25 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/dm-kcopyd.h b/include/linux/dm-kcopyd.h index 47d9d376e4e7..f486d636b82e 100644 --- a/include/linux/dm-kcopyd.h +++ b/include/linux/dm-kcopyd.h @@ -21,11 +21,34 @@ #define DM_KCOPYD_IGNORE_ERROR 1 +struct dm_kcopyd_throttle { + unsigned throttle; + unsigned num_io_jobs; + unsigned io_period; + unsigned total_period; + unsigned last_jiffies; +}; + +/* + * kcopyd clients that want to support throttling must pass an initialised + * dm_kcopyd_throttle struct into dm_kcopyd_client_create(). + * Two or more clients may share the same instance of this struct between + * them if they wish to be throttled as a group. + * + * This macro also creates a corresponding module parameter to configure + * the amount of throttling. + */ +#define DECLARE_DM_KCOPYD_THROTTLE_WITH_MODULE_PARM(name, description) \ +static struct dm_kcopyd_throttle dm_kcopyd_throttle = { 100, 0, 0, 0, 0 }; \ +module_param_named(name, dm_kcopyd_throttle.throttle, uint, 0644); \ +MODULE_PARM_DESC(name, description) + /* * To use kcopyd you must first create a dm_kcopyd_client object. + * throttle can be NULL if you don't want any throttling. */ struct dm_kcopyd_client; -struct dm_kcopyd_client *dm_kcopyd_client_create(void); +struct dm_kcopyd_client *dm_kcopyd_client_create(struct dm_kcopyd_throttle *throttle); void dm_kcopyd_client_destroy(struct dm_kcopyd_client *kc); /* |