From e6ee8c0b767540f59e20da3ced282601db8aa502 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kiyoshi Ueda Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:12:36 +0100 Subject: dm: enable request based option This patch enables request-based dm. o Request-based dm and bio-based dm coexist, since there are some target drivers which are more fitting to bio-based dm. Also, there are other bio-based devices in the kernel (e.g. md, loop). Since bio-based device can't receive struct request, there are some limitations on device stacking between bio-based and request-based. type of underlying device bio-based request-based ---------------------------------------------- bio-based OK OK request-based -- OK The device type is recognized by the queue flag in the kernel, so dm follows that. o The type of a dm device is decided at the first table binding time. Once the type of a dm device is decided, the type can't be changed. o Mempool allocations are deferred to at the table loading time, since mempools for request-based dm are different from those for bio-based dm and needed mempool type is fixed by the type of table. o Currently, request-based dm supports only tables that have a single target. To support multiple targets, we need to support request splitting or prevent bio/request from spanning multiple targets. The former needs lots of changes in the block layer, and the latter needs that all target drivers support merge() function. Both will take a time. Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c') diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c index 1c87173..7f77f18 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c @@ -1050,6 +1050,12 @@ static int populate_table(struct dm_table *table, next = spec->next; } + r = dm_table_set_type(table); + if (r) { + DMWARN("unable to set table type"); + return r; + } + return dm_table_complete(table); } @@ -1095,6 +1101,13 @@ static int table_load(struct dm_ioctl *param, size_t param_size) goto out; } + r = dm_table_alloc_md_mempools(t); + if (r) { + DMWARN("unable to allocate mempools for this table"); + dm_table_destroy(t); + goto out; + } + down_write(&_hash_lock); hc = dm_get_mdptr(md); if (!hc || hc->md != md) { -- cgit v1.1