The DRBD driver

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>

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+/*
+   lru_cache.c
+
+   This file is part of DRBD by Philipp Reisner and Lars Ellenberg.
+
+   Copyright (C) 2003-2008, LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH.
+   Copyright (C) 2003-2008, Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>.
+   Copyright (C) 2003-2008, Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>.
+
+   drbd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+   any later version.
+
+   drbd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+   along with drbd; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+   the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+
+ */
+
+#ifndef LRU_CACHE_H
+#define LRU_CACHE_H
+
+#include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/bitops.h>
+#include <linux/string.h> /* for memset */
+#include <linux/seq_file.h>
+
+/*
+This header file (and its .c file; kernel-doc of functions see there)
+  define a helper framework to easily keep track of index:label associations,
+  and changes to an "active set" of objects, as well as pending transactions,
+  to persistently record those changes.
+
+  We use an LRU policy if it is necessary to "cool down" a region currently in
+  the active set before we can "heat" a previously unused region.
+
+  Because of this later property, it is called "lru_cache".
+  As it actually Tracks Objects in an Active SeT, we could also call it
+  toast (incidentally that is what may happen to the data on the
+  backend storage uppon next resync, if we don't get it right).
+
+What for?
+
+We replicate IO (more or less synchronously) to local and remote disk.
+
+For crash recovery after replication node failure,
+  we need to resync all regions that have been target of in-flight WRITE IO
+  (in use, or "hot", regions), as we don't know wether or not those WRITEs have
+  made it to stable storage.
+
+  To avoid a "full resync", we need to persistently track these regions.
+
+  This is known as "write intent log", and can be implemented as on-disk
+  (coarse or fine grained) bitmap, or other meta data.
+
+  To avoid the overhead of frequent extra writes to this meta data area,
+  usually the condition is softened to regions that _may_ have been target of
+  in-flight WRITE IO, e.g. by only lazily clearing the on-disk write-intent
+  bitmap, trading frequency of meta data transactions against amount of
+  (possibly unneccessary) resync traffic.
+
+  If we set a hard limit on the area that may be "hot" at any given time, we
+  limit the amount of resync traffic needed for crash recovery.
+
+For recovery after replication link failure,
+  we need to resync all blocks that have been changed on the other replica
+  in the mean time, or, if both replica have been changed independently [*],
+  all blocks that have been changed on either replica in the mean time.
+  [*] usually as a result of a cluster split-brain and insufficient protection.
+      but there are valid use cases to do this on purpose.
+
+  Tracking those blocks can be implemented as "dirty bitmap".
+  Having it fine-grained reduces the amount of resync traffic.
+  It should also be persistent, to allow for reboots (or crashes)
+  while the replication link is down.
+
+There are various possible implementations for persistently storing
+write intent log information, three of which are mentioned here.
+
+"Chunk dirtying"
+  The on-disk "dirty bitmap" may be re-used as "write-intent" bitmap as well.
+  To reduce the frequency of bitmap updates for write-intent log purposes,
+  one could dirty "chunks" (of some size) at a time of the (fine grained)
+  on-disk bitmap, while keeping the in-memory "dirty" bitmap as clean as
+  possible, flushing it to disk again when a previously "hot" (and on-disk
+  dirtied as full chunk) area "cools down" again (no IO in flight anymore,
+  and none expected in the near future either).
+
+"Explicit (coarse) write intent bitmap"
+  An other implementation could chose a (probably coarse) explicit bitmap,
+  for write-intent log purposes, additionally to the fine grained dirty bitmap.
+
+"Activity log"
+  Yet an other implementation may keep track of the hot regions, by starting
+  with an empty set, and writing down a journal of region numbers that have
+  become "hot", or have "cooled down" again.
+
+  To be able to use a ring buffer for this journal of changes to the active
+  set, we not only record the actual changes to that set, but also record the
+  not changing members of the set in a round robin fashion. To do so, we use a
+  fixed (but configurable) number of slots which we can identify by index, and
+  associate region numbers (labels) with these indices.
+  For each transaction recording a change to the active set, we record the
+  change itself (index: -old_label, +new_label), and which index is associated
+  with which label (index: current_label) within a certain sliding window that
+  is moved further over the available indices with each such transaction.
+
+  Thus, for crash recovery, if the ringbuffer is sufficiently large, we can
+  accurately reconstruct the active set.
+
+  Sufficiently large depends only on maximum number of active objects, and the
+  size of the sliding window recording "index: current_label" associations within
+  each transaction.
+
+  This is what we call the "activity log".
+
+  Currently we need one activity log transaction per single label change, which
+  does not give much benefit over the "dirty chunks of bitmap" approach, other
+  than potentially less seeks.
+
+  We plan to change the transaction format to support multiple changes per
+  transaction, which then would reduce several (disjoint, "random") updates to
+  the bitmap into one transaction to the activity log ring buffer.
+*/
+
+/* this defines an element in a tracked set
+ * .colision is for hash table lookup.
+ * When we process a new IO request, we know its sector, thus can deduce the
+ * region number (label) easily.  To do the label -> object lookup without a
+ * full list walk, we use a simple hash table.
+ *
+ * .list is on one of three lists:
+ *  in_use: currently in use (refcnt > 0, lc_number != LC_FREE)
+ *     lru: unused but ready to be reused or recycled
+ *          (ts_refcnt == 0, lc_number != LC_FREE),
+ *    free: unused but ready to be recycled
+ *          (ts_refcnt == 0, lc_number == LC_FREE),
+ *
+ * an element is said to be "in the active set",
+ * if either on "in_use" or "lru", i.e. lc_number != LC_FREE.
+ *
+ * DRBD currently (May 2009) only uses 61 elements on the resync lru_cache
+ * (total memory usage 2 pages), and up to 3833 elements on the act_log
+ * lru_cache, totalling ~215 kB for 64bit architechture, ~53 pages.
+ *
+ * We usually do not actually free these objects again, but only "recycle"
+ * them, as the change "index: -old_label, +LC_FREE" would need a transaction
+ * as well.  Which also means that using a kmem_cache to allocate the objects
+ * from wastes some resources.
+ * But it avoids high order page allocations in kmalloc.
+ */
+struct lc_element {
+	struct hlist_node colision;
+	struct list_head list;		 /* LRU list or free list */
+	unsigned refcnt;
+	/* back "pointer" into ts_cache->element[index],
+	 * for paranoia, and for "ts_element_to_index" */
+	unsigned lc_index;
+	/* if we want to track a larger set of objects,
+	 * it needs to become arch independend u64 */
+	unsigned lc_number;
+
+	/* special label when on free list */
+#define LC_FREE (~0U)
+};
+
+struct lru_cache {
+	/* the least recently used item is kept at lru->prev */
+	struct list_head lru;
+	struct list_head free;
+	struct list_head in_use;
+
+	/* the pre-created kmem cache to allocate the objects from */
+	struct kmem_cache *lc_cache;
+
+	/* size of tracked objects, used to memset(,0,) them in lc_reset */
+	size_t element_size;
+	/* offset of struct lc_element member in the tracked object */
+	size_t element_off;
+
+	/* number of elements (indices) */
+	unsigned int  nr_elements;
+	/* Arbitrary limit on maximum tracked objects. Practical limit is much
+	 * lower due to allocation failures, probably. For typical use cases,
+	 * nr_elements should be a few thousand at most.
+	 * This also limits the maximum value of ts_element.ts_index, allowing the
+	 * 8 high bits of .ts_index to be overloaded with flags in the future. */
+#define LC_MAX_ACTIVE	(1<<24)
+
+	/* statistics */
+	unsigned used; /* number of lelements currently on in_use list */
+	unsigned long hits, misses, starving, dirty, changed;
+
+	/* see below: flag-bits for lru_cache */
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	/* when changing the label of an index element */
+	unsigned int  new_number;
+
+	/* for paranoia when changing the label of an index element */
+	struct lc_element *changing_element;
+
+	void  *lc_private;
+	const char *name;
+
+	/* nr_elements there */
+	struct hlist_head *lc_slot;
+	struct lc_element **lc_element;
+};
+
+
+/* flag-bits for lru_cache */
+enum {
+	/* debugging aid, to catch concurrent access early.
+	 * user needs to guarantee exclusive access by proper locking! */
+	__LC_PARANOIA,
+	/* if we need to change the set, but currently there is a changing
+	 * transaction pending, we are "dirty", and must deferr further
+	 * changing requests */
+	__LC_DIRTY,
+	/* if we need to change the set, but currently there is no free nor
+	 * unused element available, we are "starving", and must not give out
+	 * further references, to guarantee that eventually some refcnt will
+	 * drop to zero and we will be able to make progress again, changing
+	 * the set, writing the transaction.
+	 * if the statistics say we are frequently starving,
+	 * nr_elements is too small. */
+	__LC_STARVING,
+};
+#define LC_PARANOIA (1<<__LC_PARANOIA)
+#define LC_DIRTY    (1<<__LC_DIRTY)
+#define LC_STARVING (1<<__LC_STARVING)
+
+extern struct lru_cache *lc_create(const char *name, struct kmem_cache *cache,
+		unsigned e_count, size_t e_size, size_t e_off);
+extern void lc_reset(struct lru_cache *lc);
+extern void lc_destroy(struct lru_cache *lc);
+extern void lc_set(struct lru_cache *lc, unsigned int enr, int index);
+extern void lc_del(struct lru_cache *lc, struct lc_element *element);
+
+extern struct lc_element *lc_try_get(struct lru_cache *lc, unsigned int enr);
+extern struct lc_element *lc_find(struct lru_cache *lc, unsigned int enr);
+extern struct lc_element *lc_get(struct lru_cache *lc, unsigned int enr);
+extern unsigned int lc_put(struct lru_cache *lc, struct lc_element *e);
+extern void lc_changed(struct lru_cache *lc, struct lc_element *e);
+
+struct seq_file;
+extern size_t lc_seq_printf_stats(struct seq_file *seq, struct lru_cache *lc);
+
+extern void lc_seq_dump_details(struct seq_file *seq, struct lru_cache *lc, char *utext,
+				void (*detail) (struct seq_file *, struct lc_element *));
+
+/**
+ * lc_try_lock - can be used to stop lc_get() from changing the tracked set
+ * @lc: the lru cache to operate on
+ *
+ * Note that the reference counts and order on the active and lru lists may
+ * still change.  Returns true if we aquired the lock.
+ */
+static inline int lc_try_lock(struct lru_cache *lc)
+{
+	return !test_and_set_bit(__LC_DIRTY, &lc->flags);
+}
+
+/**
+ * lc_unlock - unlock @lc, allow lc_get() to change the set again
+ * @lc: the lru cache to operate on
+ */
+static inline void lc_unlock(struct lru_cache *lc)
+{
+	clear_bit(__LC_DIRTY, &lc->flags);
+	smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
+}
+
+static inline int lc_is_used(struct lru_cache *lc, unsigned int enr)
+{
+	struct lc_element *e = lc_find(lc, enr);
+	return e && e->refcnt;
+}
+
+#define lc_entry(ptr, type, member) \
+	container_of(ptr, type, member)
+
+extern struct lc_element *lc_element_by_index(struct lru_cache *lc, unsigned i);
+extern unsigned int lc_index_of(struct lru_cache *lc, struct lc_element *e);
+
+#endif