mirror_zfs/include/sys/vdev_disk.h
Tim Chase e6603b7c1f Fix sync behavior for disk vdevs
Prior to b39c22b, which was first generally available in the 0.6.5
release as b39c22b, ZoL never actually submitted synchronous read or write
requests to the Linux block layer.  This means the vdev_disk_dio_is_sync()
function had always returned false and, therefore, the completion in
dio_request_t.dr_comp was never actually used.

In b39c22b, synchronous ZIO operations were translated to synchronous
BIO requests in vdev_disk_io_start().  The follow-on commits 5592404 and
aa159af fixed several problems introduced by b39c22b.  In particular,
5592404 introduced the new flag parameter "wait" to __vdev_disk_physio()
but under ZoL, since vdev_disk_physio() is never actually used, the wait
flag was always zero so the new code had no effect other than to cause
a bug in the use of the dio_request_t.dr_comp which was fixed by aa159af.

The original rationale for introducing synchronous operations in b39c22b
was to hurry certains requests through the BIO layer which would have
otherwise been subject to its unplug timer which would increase the
latency.  This behavior of the unplug timer, however, went away during the
transition of the plug/unplug system between kernels 2.6.32 and 2.6.39.

To handle the unplug timer behavior on 2.6.32-2.6.35 kernels the
BIO_RW_UNPLUG flag is used as a hint to suppress the plugging behavior.

For kernels 2.6.36-2.6.38, the REQ_UNPLUG macro will be available and
ise used for the same purpose.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #4858
2016-07-25 14:24:47 -07:00

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#ifndef _SYS_VDEV_DISK_H
#define _SYS_VDEV_DISK_H
#ifdef _KERNEL
#include <sys/vdev.h>
typedef struct vdev_disk {
ddi_devid_t vd_devid;
char *vd_minor;
struct block_device *vd_bdev;
} vdev_disk_t;
#ifndef __linux__
extern int vdev_disk_physio(struct block_device *, caddr_t,
size_t, uint64_t, int);
extern int vdev_disk_read_rootlabel(char *, char *, nvlist_t **);
#endif
#endif /* _KERNEL */
#endif /* _SYS_VDEV_DISK_H */