1 files changed, 65 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/vdev_raidz.c b/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/vdev_raidz.c
index 1cc343a..0a107de 100644
--- a/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/vdev_raidz.c
+++ b/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/vdev_raidz.c
@@ -433,23 +433,50 @@ static const zio_vsd_ops_t vdev_raidz_vsd_ops = {
 	vdev_raidz_cksum_report
 };
 
+/*
+ * Divides the IO evenly across all child vdevs; usually, dcols is
+ * the number of children in the target vdev.
+ */
 static raidz_map_t *
 vdev_raidz_map_alloc(zio_t *zio, uint64_t unit_shift, uint64_t dcols,
     uint64_t nparity)
 {
 	raidz_map_t *rm;
+	/* The starting RAIDZ (parent) vdev sector of the block. */
 	uint64_t b = zio->io_offset >> unit_shift;
+	/* The zio's size in units of the vdev's minimum sector size. */
 	uint64_t s = zio->io_size >> unit_shift;
+	/* The first column for this stripe. */
 	uint64_t f = b % dcols;
+	/* The starting byte offset on each child vdev. */
 	uint64_t o = (b / dcols) << unit_shift;
 	uint64_t q, r, c, bc, col, acols, scols, coff, devidx, asize, tot;
 
+	/*
+	 * "Quotient": The number of data sectors for this stripe on all but
+	 * the "big column" child vdevs that also contain "remainder" data.
+	 */
 	q = s / (dcols - nparity);
+
+	/*
+	 * "Remainder": The number of partial stripe data sectors in this I/O.
+	 * This will add a sector to some, but not all, child vdevs.
+	 */
 	r = s - q * (dcols - nparity);
+
+	/* The number of "big columns" - those which contain remainder data. */
 	bc = (r == 0 ? 0 : r + nparity);
+
+	/*
+	 * The total number of data and parity sectors associated with
+	 * this I/O.
+	 */
 	tot = s + nparity * (q + (r == 0 ? 0 : 1));
 
+	/* acols: The columns that will be accessed. */
+	/* scols: The columns that will be accessed or skipped. */
 	if (q == 0) {
+		/* Our I/O request doesn't span all child vdevs. */
 		acols = bc;
 		scols = MIN(dcols, roundup(bc, nparity + 1));
 	} else {
@@ -1529,6 +1556,23 @@ vdev_raidz_child_done(zio_t *zio)
 	rc->rc_skipped = 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Start an IO operation on a RAIDZ VDev
+ *
+ * Outline:
+ * - For write operations:
+ *   1. Generate the parity data
+ *   2. Create child zio write operations to each column's vdev, for both
+ *      data and parity.
+ *   3. If the column skips any sectors for padding, create optional dummy
+ *      write zio children for those areas to improve aggregation continuity.
+ * - For read operations:
+ *   1. Create child zio read operations to each data column's vdev to read
+ *      the range of data required for zio.
+ *   2. If this is a scrub or resilver operation, or if any of the data
+ *      vdevs have had errors, then create zio read operations to the parity
+ *      columns' VDevs as well.
+ */
 static int
 vdev_raidz_io_start(zio_t *zio)
 {
@@ -1881,6 +1925,27 @@ done:
 	return (ret);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Complete an IO operation on a RAIDZ VDev
+ *
+ * Outline:
+ * - For write operations:
+ *   1. Check for errors on the child IOs.
+ *   2. Return, setting an error code if too few child VDevs were written
+ *      to reconstruct the data later.  Note that partial writes are
+ *      considered successful if they can be reconstructed at all.
+ * - For read operations:
+ *   1. Check for errors on the child IOs.
+ *   2. If data errors occurred:
+ *      a. Try to reassemble the data from the parity available.
+ *      b. If we haven't yet read the parity drives, read them now.
+ *      c. If all parity drives have been read but the data still doesn't
+ *         reassemble with a correct checksum, then try combinatorial
+ *         reconstruction.
+ *      d. If that doesn't work, return an error.
+ *   3. If there were unexpected errors or this is a resilver operation,
+ *      rewrite the vdevs that had errors.
+ */
 static void
 vdev_raidz_io_done(zio_t *zio)
 {