From 5f1b670d0bef508a5554d92525f5f6d00d640b38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 09:14:04 -0400 Subject: block, dm: don't copy bios for request clones Currently dm-multipath has to clone the bios for every request sent to the lower devices, which wastes cpu cycles and ties down memory. This patch instead adds a new REQ_CLONE flag that instructs req_bio_endio to not complete bios attached to a request, which we set on clone requests similar to bios in a flush sequence. With this change I/O errors on a path failure only get propagated to dm-multipath, which can then either resubmit the I/O or complete the bios on the original request. I've done some basic testing of this on a Linux target with ALUA support, and it survives path failures during I/O nicely. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/blk_types.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/blk_types.h') diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h index 3f4ded0..45a6be8 100644 --- a/include/linux/blk_types.h +++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h @@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ enum rq_flag_bits { __REQ_HASHED, /* on IO scheduler merge hash */ __REQ_MQ_INFLIGHT, /* track inflight for MQ */ __REQ_NO_TIMEOUT, /* requests may never expire */ + __REQ_CLONE, /* cloned bios */ __REQ_NR_BITS, /* stops here */ }; @@ -246,5 +247,6 @@ enum rq_flag_bits { #define REQ_HASHED (1ULL << __REQ_HASHED) #define REQ_MQ_INFLIGHT (1ULL << __REQ_MQ_INFLIGHT) #define REQ_NO_TIMEOUT (1ULL << __REQ_NO_TIMEOUT) +#define REQ_CLONE (1ULL << __REQ_CLONE) #endif /* __LINUX_BLK_TYPES_H */ -- cgit v1.1