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2018-01-29	dm mpath selector: more evenly distribute ties	Khazhismel Kumykov	1	-3/+3
	Move the last used path to the end of the list (least preferred) so that ties are more evenly distributed. For example, in case with three paths with one that is slower than others, the remaining two would be unevenly used if they tie. This is due to the rotation not being a truely fair distribution. Illustrated: paths a, b, c, 'c' has 1 outstanding IO, a and b are 'tied' Three possible rotations: (a, b, c) -> best path 'a' (b, c, a) -> best path 'b' (c, a, b) -> best path 'a' (a, b, c) -> best path 'a' (b, c, a) -> best path 'b' (c, a, b) -> best path 'a' ... So 'a' is used 2x more than 'b', although they should be used evenly. With this change, the most recently used path is always the least preferred, removing this bias resulting in even distribution. (a, b, c) -> best path 'a' (b, c, a) -> best path 'b' (c, a, b) -> best path 'a' (c, b, a) -> best path 'b' ... Signed-off-by: Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@google.com> Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2016-02-22	dm path selector: remove 'repeat_count' return from .select_path hook	Mike Snitzer	1	-4/+1
	If a path selector has any use for a repeat_count it should be handled locally and not depend on the dm-mpath core to be concerned with it. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2016-02-22	dm mpath: push path selector locking down to path selectors	Mike Snitzer	1	-3/+20
	Proper locking of the lists used by the path selectors should be handled within the selectors (relying on dm-mpath.c code's use of the m->lock spinlock was reckless). Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2016-02-22	dm mpath: remove repeat_count support from multipath core	Mike Snitzer	1	-2/+7
	Preparation for making __multipath_map() avoid taking the m->lock spinlock -- in favor of using RCU locking. repeat_count was primarily for bio-based DM multipath's benefit. There is really no need for it anymore now that DM multipath is request-based. As such, repeat_count > 1 is no longer honored and a warning is displayed if the user attempts to use a value > 1. This is a temporary change for the round-robin path-selector (as a later commit will restore its support for repeat_count > 1). Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2012-03-28	dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input	Mikulas Patocka	1	-1/+2
	Device mapper uses sscanf to convert arguments to numbers. The problem is that the way we use it ignores additional unmatched characters in the scanned string. For example, this `if (sscanf(string, "%d", &number) == 1)' will match a number, but also it will match number with some garbage appended, like "123abc". As a result, device mapper accepts garbage after some numbers. For example the command `dmsetup create vg1-new --table "0 16384 linear 254:1bla 34816bla"' will pass without an error. This patch fixes all sscanf uses in device mapper. It appends "%c" with a pointer to a dummy character variable to every sscanf statement. The construct `if (sscanf(string, "%d%c", &number, &dummy) == 1)' succeeds only if string is a null-terminated number (optionally preceded by some whitespace characters). If there is some character appended after the number, sscanf matches "%c", writes the character to the dummy variable and returns 2. We check the return value for 1 and consequently reject numbers with some garbage appended. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-07-26	atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>	Arun Sharma	1	-1/+1
	This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h> (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-22	dm mpath: add queue length load balancer	Kiyoshi Ueda	1	-0/+263
	This patch adds a dynamic load balancer, dm-queue-length, which balances the number of in-flight I/Os across the paths. The code is based on the patch posted by Stefan Bader: https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2005-October/msg00050.html Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>