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The dm-cache writethrough strategy introduced by commit e2e74d617eadc15
authorDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:22:51 +0000 (10:22 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:22:51 +0000 (10:22 +1100)
commit30deef707cf3fea3eeb73eaa4c6da6d3b8ebff75
treea2d9dc0004a92974780028c8f22b82d4942029c0
parent8bb9660418e05bb1845ac1a2428444d78e322cc7
The dm-cache writethrough strategy introduced by commit e2e74d617eadc15
("dm cache: fix race in writethrough implementation") issues a bio to
the origin device, remaps and then issues the bio to the cache device.
This more conservative in-series approach was selected to favor
correctness over performance (of the previous parallel writethrough).
However, this in-series implementation that reuses the same bio to write
both the origin and cache device didn't take into account that the block
layer's req_bio_endio() modifies a completing bio's bi_sector and
bi_size.  So the new writethrough strategy needs to preserve these bio
fields, and restore them before submission to the cache device,
otherwise nothing gets written to the cache (because bi_size is 0).

This patch adds a struct dm_bio_details field to struct per_bio_data,
and uses dm_bio_record() and dm_bio_restore() to ensure the bio is
restored before reissuing to the cache device.  Adding such a large
structure to the per_bio_data is not ideal but we can improve this
later, for now correctness is the important thing.

This problem initially went unnoticed because the dm-cache test-suite
uses a linear DM device for the dm-cache device's origin device.
Writethrough worked as expected because DM submits a *clone* of the
original bio, so the original bio which was reused for the cache was
never touched.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c