This allows to avoid allocating cleaner metadata section and effectively
save up to 20% of metadata memory footprint.
Signed-off-by: Robert Baldyga <robert.baldyga@intel.com>
Cleaning policy is initialized on standby activate, after all the metadata
from primary cache is flushed and the actual recovery is being performed.
Thus initializing it earlier on standby attach is incorrect.
Signed-off-by: Robert Baldyga <robert.baldyga@intel.com>
conf_meta->core_count is not modified during load/recovery in the latest
version. Thus in case of error in cores initialization, in order to
iterate over the initialized cores we must depend on core->added only,
regardles of conf_meta->core_count value. for_each_core() macro does
exactly this.
Signed-off-by: Adam Rutkowski <adam.j.rutkowski@intel.com>
Set bit only on core addition and clean it on core removal.
This allows to avoid conf metadata modification in load / standby load
paths, which effectively prevents issues with metadata mismatch during
consequent standby activate attempts after initial activate failure.
Previously the first attempt changed the metadata, so on comparison with
metadata on drive failed on any following attempt, leading to inability
to activate the cache.
Signed-off-by: Robert Baldyga <robert.baldyga@intel.com>
Cleaning policy initializaton initializes metadata for all cache lines
anyway, so this step is not needed.
Signed-off-by: Robert Baldyga <robert.baldyga@intel.com>
The purpose of this change is not to write superblock to the cache
drive untill all other sections are initilized on disk in attach()
path. Combined with superblock clearing at the erarlier stage of
attach(), this assures there are no residual mappings in the collision
section in case of power failure during attach with pre-existing
metadata.
This is implemented by removing ocf_metadata_flush_all_set_status() step
at the beginning of ocf_metadata_flush_all().
ocf_metadata_flush_all() is called, except for the attach() case described
above, in two cases:
1. at the end of cache load - potentially after cache recovery
2. during detaching cache drive in cache stop.
To make sure there are no regressions in the first case, an explicit
_ocf_mngt_attach_shutdown_status() is added to load pipeline before
ocf_metadata_flush_all(). The second case is always ran after cache
drive is attached, so dirty status bit must have already be written to
the disk.
Signed-off-by: Adam Rutkowski <adam.j.rutkowski@intel.com>
Because of metadata flapping it is much more complicated to capture those
sections in flight in standby mode, so we read them directly from the cache
volume during the activate.
Signed-off-by: Robert Baldyga <robert.baldyga@intel.com>
To allow the fastest switching from the passive-standby to active mode, the
runtime metadata must be kept 100% synced with the metadata on the drive and in
the RAM thus recovery is required after each collision section update.
To avoid long-lasting recovering of all the cachelines each time the collision
section is being updated, the passive update procedure recovers only those
which have its MD entries on the updated pages.
Signed-off-by: Michal Mielewczyk <michal.mielewczyk@intel.com>
Starting cache in a standby mode requires access to a valid cleaning policy
type. If the policy is stored only in the superblock, it may be overridden by
one of the metadata passive updates.
To prevent losing the information it should be stored in cache's runtime
metadata.
Signed-off-by: Michal Mielewczyk <michal.mielewczyk@intel.com>
Initializing cleaning policy is very time consuming. To reduce the time required
for activating cache instance the initialization sholud be done during passitve
start
Signed-off-by: Michal Mielewczyk <michal.mielewczyk@intel.com>
Since part of the recovery is done during `standby init`, the correct shutdown
status has to be set
Signed-off-by: Michal Mielewczyk <michal.mielewczyk@intel.com>
The unsafe mode is useful if the metadata of added cores is incomplete.
Such scenario is possible when starting cache to standby mode from partially
vaild metadata.
Signed-off-by: Michal Mielewczyk <michal.mielewczyk@intel.com>
Make sure all the invalid cachelines have reset status bits. This allows to
recognize invalid cachelines easily during populate.
Signed-off-by: Michal Mielewczyk <michal.mielewczyk@intel.com>
