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When a single copy of metadata gets within 1MB of the
current io_memory_size value, begin printing a warning
that the io_memory_size should be increased.
and "cachepool" to refer to a cache on a cache pool object.
The problem was that the --cachepool option was being used
to refer to both a cache pool object, and to a standard LV
used for caching. This could be somewhat confusing, and it
made it less clear when each kind would be used. By
separating them, it's clear when a cachepool or a cachevol
should be used.
Previously:
- lvm would use the cache pool approach when the user passed
a cache-pool LV to the --cachepool option.
- lvm would use the cache vol approach when the user passed
a standard LV in the --cachepool option.
Now:
- lvm will always use the cache pool approach when the user
uses the --cachepool option.
- lvm will always use the cache vol approach when the user
uses the --cachevol option.
. When using default settings, this commit should change
nothing. The first PE continues to be placed at 1 MiB
resulting in a metadata area size of 1020 KiB (for
4K page sizes; slightly smaller for larger page sizes.)
. When default_data_alignment is disabled in lvm.conf,
align pe_start at 1 MiB, based on a default metadata area
size that adapts to the page size. Previously, disabling
this option would result in mda_size that was too small
for common use, and produced a 64 KiB aligned pe_start.
. Customized pe_start and mda_size values continue to be
set as before in lvm.conf and command line.
. Remove the configure option for setting default_data_alignment
at build time.
. Improve alignment related option descriptions.
. Add section about alignment to pvcreate man page.
Previously, DEFAULT_PVMETADATASIZE was 255 sectors.
However, the fact that the config setting named
"default_data_alignment" has a default value of 1 (MiB)
meant that DEFAULT_PVMETADATASIZE was having no effect.
The metadata area size is the space between the start of
the metadata area (page size offset from the start of the
device) and the first PE (1 MiB by default due to
default_data_alignment 1.) The result is a 1020 KiB metadata
area on machines with 4KiB page size (1024 KiB - 4 KiB),
and smaller on machines with larger page size.
If default_data_alignment was set to 0 (disabled), then
DEFAULT_PVMETADATASIZE 255 would take effect, and produce a
metadata area that was 188 KiB and pe_start of 192 KiB.
This was too small for common use.
This is fixed by making the default metadata area size a
computed value that matches the value produced by
default_data_alignment.
If a single, standard LV is specified as the cache, use
it directly instead of converting it into a cache-pool
object with two separate LVs (for data and metadata).
With a single LV as the cache, lvm will use blocks at the
beginning for metadata, and the rest for data. Separate
dm linear devices are set up to point at the metadata and
data areas of the LV. These dm devs are given to the
dm-cache target to use.
The single LV cache cannot be resized without recreating it.
If the --poolmetadata option is used to specify an LV for
metadata, then a cache pool will be created (with separate
LVs for data and metadata.)
Usage:
$ lvcreate -n main -L 128M vg /dev/loop0
$ lvcreate -n fast -L 64M vg /dev/loop1
$ lvs -a vg
LV VG Attr LSize Type Devices
main vg -wi-a----- 128.00m linear /dev/loop0(0)
fast vg -wi-a----- 64.00m linear /dev/loop1(0)
$ lvconvert --type cache --cachepool fast vg/main
$ lvs -a vg
LV VG Attr LSize Origin Pool Type Devices
[fast] vg Cwi---C--- 64.00m linear /dev/loop1(0)
main vg Cwi---C--- 128.00m [main_corig] [fast] cache main_corig(0)
[main_corig] vg owi---C--- 128.00m linear /dev/loop0(0)
$ lvchange -ay vg/main
$ dmsetup ls
vg-fast_cdata (253:4)
vg-fast_cmeta (253:5)
vg-main_corig (253:6)
vg-main (253:24)
vg-fast (253:3)
$ dmsetup table
vg-fast_cdata: 0 98304 linear 253:3 32768
vg-fast_cmeta: 0 32768 linear 253:3 0
vg-main_corig: 0 262144 linear 7:0 2048
vg-main: 0 262144 cache 253:5 253:4 253:6 128 2 metadata2 writethrough mq 0
vg-fast: 0 131072 linear 7:1 2048
$ lvchange -an vg/min
$ lvconvert --splitcache vg/main
$ lvs -a vg
LV VG Attr LSize Type Devices
fast vg -wi------- 64.00m linear /dev/loop1(0)
main vg -wi------- 128.00m linear /dev/loop0(0)
lvm uses a bcache block size of 128K. A bcache block
at the end of the metadata area will overlap the PEs
from which LVs are allocated. How much depends on
alignments. When lvm reads and writes one of these
bcache blocks to update VG metadata, it can also be
reading and writing PEs that belong to an LV.
If these overlapping PEs are being written to by the
LV user (e.g. filesystem) at the same time that lvm
is modifying VG metadata in the overlapping bcache
block, then the user's updates to the PEs can be lost.
This patch is a quick hack to prevent lvm from writing
past the end of the metadata area.
Previously the size was limited by checking if the
old and new copies of the metadata overlapped.
This generally limited the size to about half of
the total space, but it could be larger given the
size differences between old and new. Now add a
direct check to limit the size to half the space.
Remove another instance of an invalid check for metadata
overflow during read. The previous instance was removed
in commit 5fb15b193.
This was checking for metadata that that overflowed the
circular disk metadata buffer during read, but such metadata
cannot be written, so it shouldn't be possible to find see.
Also, the check was incorrect and could trigger when there
was no overflow.
The vg_write/vg_commit code was imprecise, uncommented, and
hard to understand. Rewrite it with clearer, cleaner code,
extensive comments, descriptions of how it works, and add
more info in debugging output.
The minor changes in behavior are to things that were
either incorrect or probably unintended:
- vg_write/vg_commit no longer check that the current vgname at
the start of the text metadata matches the vgname being written.
This has already been done at least twice by the time they are
called, and repeating it again against the same cached data has
no use.
- A fragment of old removed code had been left behind that checked
if the old unused alignment policy would wrap. It was still
being checked to decide if the metadata area was full, which
could possibly cause an incorrect full metadata failure.
- vg_remove now clears both the raw_locns in the mda_header that
point to committed metadata (raw_locn slot 0) and precommitted
metadata (raw_locn slot 1). Previously it fully cleared the
committed slot, and would only clear the offset field in the
precommitted slot if it saw a problem with the metadata in the
vg being removed.
- read_metadata_location_summary was wrongly comparing the number
of wrapped bytes with an offset to report an error about the
metadata being too large. This wrong check is removed, it
could have resulted in erroneous errors.
Native disk scanning is now both reduced and
async/parallel, which makes it comparable in
performance (and often faster) when compared
to lvm using lvmetad.
Autoactivation now uses local temp files to record
online PVs, and no longer requires lvmetad.
There should be no apparent command-level change
in behavior.
As we start refactoring the code to break dependencies (see doc/refactoring.txt),
I want us to use full paths in the includes (eg, #include "base/data-struct/list.h").
This makes it more obvious when we're breaking abstraction boundaries, eg, including a file in
metadata/ from base/
There are likely more bits of code that can be removed,
e.g. lvm1/pool-specific bits of code that were identified
using FMT flags.
The vgconvert command can likely be reduced further.
The lvm1-specific config settings should probably have
some other fields set for proper deprecation.
For reporting commands (pvs,vgs,lvs,pvdisplay,vgdisplay,lvdisplay)
we do not need to repeat the label scan of devices in vg_read if
they all had matching metadata in the initial label scan. The
data read by label scan can just be reused for the vg_read.
This cuts the amount of device i/o in half, from two reads of
each device to one. We have to be careful to avoid repairing
the VG if we've skipped rescanning. (The VG repair code is very
poor, and will be redone soon.)
Recent changes allow some major simplification of the way
lvmcache works and is used. lvmcache_label_scan is now
called in a controlled fashion at the start of commands,
and not via various unpredictable side effects. Remove
various calls to it from other places. lvmcache_label_scan
should not be called from anywhere during a command, because
it produces an incorrect representation of PVs with no MDAs,
and misclassifies them as orphans. This has been a long
standing problem. The invalid flag and rescanning based on
that is no longer used and removed. The 'force' variation is
no longer needed and removed.
The improved detection of bad metadata when scanning
(where errors were ignored before) means we now have to
override some errors when forcibly erasing damaged metadata.
This is a temporary hacky workaround to the problem of
reads going through bcache and writes not using bcache.
The write path wants to read parts of data that it is
incrementally writing to disk, but the reads (using
bcache) don't work because the writes are not in the
bcache. For now, add a dev to bcache before each attempt
to read it in case it's being used on the write path.
Create a new dev->bcache_fd that the scanning code owns
and is in charge of opening/closing. This prevents other
parts of lvm code (which do various open/close) from
interfering with the bcache fd. A number of dev_open
and dev_close are removed from the reading path since
the read path now uses the bcache.
With that in place, open(O_EXCL) for pvcreate/pvremove
can then be fixed. That wouldn't work previously because
of other open fds.
When process_each_pv() calls vg_read() on the orphan VG, the
internal implementation was doing an unnecessary
lvmcache_label_scan() and two unnecessary label_read() calls
on each orphan. Some of those unnecessary label scans/reads
would sometimes be skipped due to caching, but the code was
always doing at least one unnecessary read on each orphan.
The common format_text case was also unecessarily calling into
the format-specific pv_read() function which actually did nothing.
By analyzing each case in which vg_read() was being called on
the orphan VG, we can say that all of the label scans/reads
in vg_read_orphans are unnecessary:
1. reporting commands: the information saved in lvmcache by
the original label scan can be reported. There is no advantage
to repeating the label scan on the orphans a second time before
reporting it.
2. pvcreate/vgcreate/vgextend: these all share a common
implementation in pvcreate_each_device(). That function
already rescans labels after acquiring the orphan VG lock,
which ensures that the command is using valid lvmcache
information.
This fixes the use of lvmcache_label_rescan_vg() in the previous
commit for the special case of independent metadata areas.
label scan is about discovering VG name to device associations
using information from disks, but devices in VGs with
independent metadata areas have no information on disk, so
the label scan does nothing for these VGs/devices.
With independent metadata areas, only the VG metadata found
in files is used. This metadata is found and read in
vg_read in the processing phase.
lvmcache_label_rescan_vg() drops lvmcache info for the VG devices
before repeating the label scan on them. In the case of
independent metadata areas, there is no metadata on devices, so the
label scan of the devices will find nothing, so will not recreate
the necessary vginfo/info data in lvmcache for the VG. Fix this
by setting a flag in the lvmcache vginfo struct indicating that
the VG uses independent metadata areas, and label rescanning should
be skipped.
In the case of independent metadata areas, it is the metadata
processing in the vg_read phase that sets up the lvmcache
vginfo/info information, and label scan has no role.
Move the location of scans to make it clearer and avoid
unnecessary repeated scanning. There should be one scan
at the start of a command which is then used through the
rest of command processing.
Previously, the initial label scan was called as a side effect
from various utility functions. This would lead to it being called
unnecessarily. It is an expensive operation, and should only be
called when necessary. Also, this is a primary step in the
function of the command, and as such it should be called prominently
at the top level of command processing, not as a hidden side effect
of a utility function. lvm knows exactly where and when the
label scan needs to be done. Because of this, move the label scan
calls from the internal functions to the top level of processing.
Other specific instances of lvmcache_label_scan() are still called
unnecessarily or unclearly by specific commands that do not use
the common process_each functions. These will be improved in
future commits.
During the processing phase, rescanning labels for devices in a VG
needs to be done after the VG lock is acquired in case things have
changed since the initial label scan. This was being done by way
of rescanning devices that had the INVALID flag set in lvmcache.
This usually approximated the right set of devices, but it was not
exact, and obfuscated the real requirement. Correct this by using
a new function that rescans the devices in the VG:
lvmcache_label_rescan_vg().
Apart from being inexact, the rescanning was extremely well hidden.
_vg_read() would call ->create_instance(), _text_create_text_instance(),
_create_vg_text_instance() which would call lvmcache_label_scan()
which would call _scan_invalid() which repeats the label scan on
devices flagged INVALID. lvmcache_label_rescan_vg() is now called
prominently by _vg_read() directly.
To do label scanning, lvm code calls lvmcache_label_scan().
Change lvmcache_label_scan() to use the new label_scan()
based on bcache.
Also add lvmcache_label_rescan_vg() which calls the new
label_scan_devs() which does label scanning on only the
specified devices. This is for a subsequent commit and
is not yet used.
New label_scan function populates bcache for each device
on the system.
The two read paths are updated to get data from bcache.
The bcache is not yet used for writing. bcache blocks
for a device are invalidated when the device is written.
