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dm: optimize flushes
authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Tue, 28 May 2024 11:32:34 +0000 (13:32 +0200)
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:32:39 +0000 (11:32 -0400)
commitaaa53168cbcc486ca1927faac00bd99e81d4ff04
tree817b2893bc4545fdc9f8a364917e39222b980ab4
parentcf546dd289e0f6d2594c25e2fb4e19ee67c6d988
dm: optimize flushes

Device mapper sends flush bios to all the targets and the targets send it
to the underlying device. That may be inefficient, for example if a table
contains 10 linear targets pointing to the same physical device, then
device mapper would send 10 flush bios to that device - despite the fact
that only one bio would be sufficient.

This commit optimizes the flush behavior. It introduces a per-target
variable flush_bypasses_map - it is set when the target supports flush
optimization - currently, the dm-linear and dm-stripe targets support it.
When all the targets in a table have flush_bypasses_map,
flush_bypasses_map on the table is set. __send_empty_flush tests if the
table has flush_bypasses_map - and if it has, no flush bios are sent to
the targets via the "map" method and the list dm_table->devices is
iterated and the flush bios are sent to each member of the list.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang@vivo.com>
drivers/md/dm-core.h
drivers/md/dm-linear.c
drivers/md/dm-stripe.c
drivers/md/dm-table.c
drivers/md/dm.c
include/linux/device-mapper.h