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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-04-01 19:43:53 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-04-01 19:43:53 -0700 |
commit | b33ce442993865180292df2a314ee5251ba38b50 (patch) | |
tree | 004b703ea3cd19c932393086fe9cde96e8db8de7 /Documentation | |
parent | 7a48837732f87a574ee3e1855927dc250117f565 (diff) | |
parent | e84987a1f941b8e2e3173bb38510ddf25cc8c7f0 (diff) |
Merge branch 'for-3.15/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block driver update from Jens Axboe:
"On top of the core pull request, here's the pull request for the
driver related changes for 3.15. It contains:
- Improvements for msi-x registration for block drivers (mtip32xx,
skd, cciss, nvme) from Alexander Gordeev.
- A round of cleanups and improvements for drbd from Andreas
Gruenbacher and Rashika Kheria.
- A round of clanups and improvements for bcache from Kent.
- Removal of sleep_on() and friends in DAC960, ataflop, swim3 from
Arnd Bergmann.
- Bug fix for a bug in the mtip32xx async completion code from Sam
Bradshaw.
- Bug fix for accidentally bouncing IO on 32-bit platforms with
mtip32xx from Felipe Franciosi"
* 'for-3.15/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (103 commits)
bcache: remove nested function usage
bcache: Kill bucket->gc_gen
bcache: Kill unused freelist
bcache: Rework btree cache reserve handling
bcache: Kill btree_io_wq
bcache: btree locking rework
bcache: Fix a race when freeing btree nodes
bcache: Add a real GC_MARK_RECLAIMABLE
bcache: Add bch_keylist_init_single()
bcache: Improve priority_stats
bcache: Better alloc tracepoints
bcache: Kill dead cgroup code
bcache: stop moving_gc marking buckets that can't be moved.
bcache: Fix moving_pred()
bcache: Fix moving_gc deadlocking with a foreground write
bcache: Fix discard granularity
bcache: Fix another bug recovering from unclean shutdown
bcache: Fix a bug recovering from unclean shutdown
bcache: Fix a journalling reclaim after recovery bug
bcache: Fix a null ptr deref in journal replay
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/blockdev/drbd/data-structure-v9.txt | 38 |
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/drbd/data-structure-v9.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/drbd/data-structure-v9.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..1e52a0e32624 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/drbd/data-structure-v9.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +This describes the in kernel data structure for DRBD-9. Starting with +Linux v3.14 we are reorganizing DRBD to use this data structure. + +Basic Data Structure +==================== + +A node has a number of DRBD resources. Each such resource has a number of +devices (aka volumes) and connections to other nodes ("peer nodes"). Each DRBD +device is represented by a block device locally. + +The DRBD objects are interconnected to form a matrix as depicted below; a +drbd_peer_device object sits at each intersection between a drbd_device and a +drbd_connection: + + /--------------+---------------+.....+---------------\ + | resource | device | | device | + +--------------+---------------+.....+---------------+ + | connection | peer_device | | peer_device | + +--------------+---------------+.....+---------------+ + : : : : : + : : : : : + +--------------+---------------+.....+---------------+ + | connection | peer_device | | peer_device | + \--------------+---------------+.....+---------------/ + +In this table, horizontally, devices can be accessed from resources by their +volume number. Likewise, peer_devices can be accessed from connections by +their volume number. Objects in the vertical direction are connected by double +linked lists. There are back pointers from peer_devices to their connections a +devices, and from connections and devices to their resource. + +All resources are in the drbd_resources double-linked list. In addition, all +devices can be accessed by their minor device number via the drbd_devices idr. + +The drbd_resource, drbd_connection, and drbd_device objects are reference +counted. The peer_device objects only serve to establish the links between +devices and connections; their lifetime is determined by the lifetime of the +device and connection which they reference. |