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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2010-10-26 18:31:13 +1100
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2010-10-28 17:36:15 +1100
commita167f663243662aa9153c01086580a11cde9ffdc (patch)
tree886e64787421bbf17a1eab7853d67258b598f050 /drivers/md/md.h
parent2b193363ef68667ad717a6723165e0dccf99470f (diff)
md: use separate bio pool for each md device.
bio_clone and bio_alloc allocate from a common bio pool. If an md device is stacked with other devices that use this pool, or under something like swap which uses the pool, then the multiple calls on the pool can cause deadlocks. So allocate a local bio pool for each md array and use that rather than the common pool. This pool is used both for regular IO and metadata updates. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/md.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
index 5ee53713555..d05bab55df4 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.h
+++ b/drivers/md/md.h
@@ -331,6 +331,8 @@ struct mddev_s
struct attribute_group *to_remove;
struct plug_handle *plug; /* if used by personality */
+ struct bio_set *bio_set;
+
/* Generic flush handling.
* The last to finish preflush schedules a worker to submit
* the rest of the request (without the REQ_FLUSH flag).
@@ -517,4 +519,8 @@ extern void md_rdev_init(mdk_rdev_t *rdev);
extern void mddev_suspend(mddev_t *mddev);
extern void mddev_resume(mddev_t *mddev);
+extern struct bio *bio_clone_mddev(struct bio *bio, gfp_t gfp_mask,
+ mddev_t *mddev);
+extern struct bio *bio_alloc_mddev(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nr_iovecs,
+ mddev_t *mddev);
#endif /* _MD_MD_H */