From a596d08677320925b69e70c0fdc4c0f59384a65e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mariusz Dabrowski Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:04:09 +0100 Subject: raid5: set write hint for PPL When the Partial Parity Log is enabled, circular buffer is used to store PPL data. Each write to RAID device causes overwrite of data in this buffer so some write_hint can be set to those request to help drives handle garbage collection. This patch adds new sysfs attribute which can be used to specify which write_hint should be assigned to PPL. Acked-by: Guoqing Jiang Signed-off-by: Mariusz Dabrowski Signed-off-by: Song Liu --- drivers/md/raid5-log.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'drivers/md/raid5-log.h') diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5-log.h b/drivers/md/raid5-log.h index bfb811407061..43c714a8798c 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid5-log.h +++ b/drivers/md/raid5-log.h @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ extern void ppl_stripe_write_finished(struct stripe_head *sh); extern int ppl_modify_log(struct r5conf *conf, struct md_rdev *rdev, bool add); extern void ppl_quiesce(struct r5conf *conf, int quiesce); extern int ppl_handle_flush_request(struct r5l_log *log, struct bio *bio); +extern struct md_sysfs_entry ppl_write_hint; static inline bool raid5_has_log(struct r5conf *conf) { -- cgit v1.2.3