[dm-devel] [2.6.23 PATCH 11/18] dm: disable barriers

[Alasdair G Kergon]

From: Stefan Bader <shbader at de.ibm.com>

This patch causes device-mapper to reject any barrier requests.  This is done
since most of the targets won't handle this correctly anyway.  So until the
situation improves it is better to reject these requests at the first place.
Since barrier requests won't get to the targets, the checks there can be
removed.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <shbader at de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk at redhat.com>

---

 drivers/md/dm-crypt.c |    3 ---
 drivers/md/dm-mpath.c |    3 ---
 drivers/md/dm-snap.c  |    6 ------
 drivers/md/dm.c       |    9 +++++++++
 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Index: linux/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c	2007-07-11 21:37:38.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c	2007-07-11 21:37:47.000000000 +0100
@@ -941,9 +941,6 @@ static int crypt_map(struct dm_target *t
 	struct crypt_config *cc = ti->private;
 	struct dm_crypt_io *io;
 
-	if (bio_barrier(bio))
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
 	io = mempool_alloc(cc->io_pool, GFP_NOIO);
 	io->target = ti;
 	io->base_bio = bio;
Index: linux/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c	2007-07-11 21:37:40.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c	2007-07-11 21:37:47.000000000 +0100
@@ -798,9 +798,6 @@ static int multipath_map(struct dm_targe
 	struct dm_mpath_io *mpio;
 	struct multipath *m = (struct multipath *) ti->private;
 
-	if (bio_barrier(bio))
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
 	mpio = mempool_alloc(m->mpio_pool, GFP_NOIO);
 	dm_bio_record(&mpio->details, bio);
 
Index: linux/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/md/dm-snap.c	2007-07-11 21:37:45.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/drivers/md/dm-snap.c	2007-07-11 21:37:47.000000000 +0100
@@ -889,9 +889,6 @@ static int snapshot_map(struct dm_target
 	if (!s->valid)
 		return -EIO;
 
-	if (unlikely(bio_barrier(bio)))
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
 	/* FIXME: should only take write lock if we need
 	 * to copy an exception */
 	down_write(&s->lock);
@@ -1162,9 +1159,6 @@ static int origin_map(struct dm_target *
 	struct dm_dev *dev = ti->private;
 	bio->bi_bdev = dev->bdev;
 
-	if (unlikely(bio_barrier(bio)))
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
 	/* Only tell snapshots if this is a write */
 	return (bio_rw(bio) == WRITE) ? do_origin(dev, bio) : DM_MAPIO_REMAPPED;
 }
Index: linux/drivers/md/dm.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/md/dm.c	2007-07-11 21:37:38.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/drivers/md/dm.c	2007-07-11 21:37:47.000000000 +0100
@@ -800,6 +800,15 @@ static int dm_request(request_queue_t *q
 	int rw = bio_data_dir(bio);
 	struct mapped_device *md = q->queuedata;
 
+	/*
+	 * There is no use in forwarding any barrier request since we can't
+	 * guarantee it is (or can be) handled by the targets correctly.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(bio_barrier(bio))) {
+		bio_endio(bio, bio->bi_size, -EOPNOTSUPP);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	down_read(&md->io_lock);
 
 	disk_stat_inc(dm_disk(md), ios[rw]);