md: kill STRIPE_OP_MOD_DMA in raid5 offload
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:31:50 +0000 (08:31 +1000)
committerNeil Brown <neilb@notabene.brown>
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:31:50 +0000 (08:31 +1000)
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

This micro-optimization allowed the raid code to skip a re-read of the
parity block after checking parity.  It took advantage of the fact that
xor-offload-engines have their own internal result buffer and can check
parity without writing to memory.  Remove it for the following reasons:

1/ It is a layering violation for MD to need to manage the DMA and
   non-DMA paths within async_xor_zero_sum
2/ Bad precedent to toggle the 'ops' flags outside the lock
3/ Hard to realize a performance gain as reads will not need an updated
   parity block and writes will dirty it anyways.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
drivers/md/raid5.c
include/linux/raid/raid5.h

index 8c4e614..60e61d2 100644 (file)
@@ -837,15 +837,10 @@ ops_run_postxor(struct stripe_head *sh, struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx,
 static void ops_complete_check(void *stripe_head_ref)
 {
        struct stripe_head *sh = stripe_head_ref;
-       int pd_idx = sh->pd_idx;
 
        pr_debug("%s: stripe %llu\n", __func__,
                (unsigned long long)sh->sector);
 
-       if (test_and_clear_bit(STRIPE_OP_MOD_DMA_CHECK, &sh->ops.pending) &&
-               sh->ops.zero_sum_result == 0)
-               set_bit(R5_UPTODATE, &sh->dev[pd_idx].flags);
-
        set_bit(STRIPE_OP_CHECK, &sh->ops.complete);
        set_bit(STRIPE_HANDLE, &sh->state);
        release_stripe(sh);
@@ -873,11 +868,6 @@ static void ops_run_check(struct stripe_head *sh)
        tx = async_xor_zero_sum(xor_dest, xor_srcs, 0, count, STRIPE_SIZE,
                &sh->ops.zero_sum_result, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL);
 
-       if (tx)
-               set_bit(STRIPE_OP_MOD_DMA_CHECK, &sh->ops.pending);
-       else
-               clear_bit(STRIPE_OP_MOD_DMA_CHECK, &sh->ops.pending);
-
        atomic_inc(&sh->count);
        tx = async_trigger_callback(ASYNC_TX_DEP_ACK | ASYNC_TX_ACK, tx,
                ops_complete_check, sh);
index f0827d3..4ecae31 100644 (file)
@@ -267,10 +267,8 @@ struct r6_state {
 
 /* modifiers to the base operations
  * STRIPE_OP_MOD_REPAIR_PD - compute the parity block and write it back
- * STRIPE_OP_MOD_DMA_CHECK - parity is not corrupted by the check
  */
 #define STRIPE_OP_MOD_REPAIR_PD 7
-#define STRIPE_OP_MOD_DMA_CHECK 8
 
 /*
  * Plugging: