md: allow parallel resync of md-devices.

In some configurations, a raid6 resync can be limited by CPU speed
(Calculating P and Q and moving data) rather than by device speed.  In
these cases there is nothing to be gained byt serialising resync of arrays
that share a device, and doing the resync in parallel can provide benefit.
 So add a sysfs tunable to flag an array as being allowed to resync in
parallel with other arrays that use (a different part of) the same device.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert <bs@q-leap.de>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

drivers/md/md.c

@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pers_lock);
 
 static void md_print_devices(void);
 
+static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(resync_wait);
+
 #define MD_BUG(x...) { printk("md: bug in file %s, line %d\n", __FILE__, __LINE__); md_print_devices(); }
 
 /*
@@ -3012,6 +3014,36 @@ degraded_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
 }
 static struct md_sysfs_entry md_degraded = __ATTR_RO(degraded);
 
+static ssize_t
+sync_force_parallel_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
+{
+	return sprintf(page, "%d\n", mddev->parallel_resync);
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+sync_force_parallel_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+	long n;
+
+	if (strict_strtol(buf, 10, &n))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (n != 0 && n != 1)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	mddev->parallel_resync = n;
+
+	if (mddev->sync_thread)
+		wake_up(&resync_wait);
+
+	return len;
+}
+
+/* force parallel resync, even with shared block devices */
+static struct md_sysfs_entry md_sync_force_parallel =
+__ATTR(sync_force_parallel, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR,
+       sync_force_parallel_show, sync_force_parallel_store);
+
 static ssize_t
 sync_speed_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
 {
@@ -3187,6 +3219,7 @@ static struct attribute *md_redundancy_attrs[] = {
 	&md_sync_min.attr,
 	&md_sync_max.attr,
 	&md_sync_speed.attr,
+	&md_sync_force_parallel.attr,
 	&md_sync_completed.attr,
 	&md_max_sync.attr,
 	&md_suspend_lo.attr,
@@ -5487,8 +5520,6 @@ void md_allow_write(mddev_t *mddev)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(md_allow_write);
 
-static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(resync_wait);
-
 #define SYNC_MARKS	10
 #define	SYNC_MARK_STEP	(3*HZ)
 void md_do_sync(mddev_t *mddev)
@@ -5552,8 +5583,9 @@ void md_do_sync(mddev_t *mddev)
 		for_each_mddev(mddev2, tmp) {
 			if (mddev2 == mddev)
 				continue;
-			if (mddev2->curr_resync && 
-			    match_mddev_units(mddev,mddev2)) {
+			if (!mddev->parallel_resync
+			&&  mddev2->curr_resync
+			&&  match_mddev_units(mddev, mddev2)) {
 				DEFINE_WAIT(wq);
 				if (mddev < mddev2 && mddev->curr_resync == 2) {
 					/* arbitrarily yield */

include/linux/raid/md_k.h

@@ -180,6 +180,9 @@ struct mddev_s
 	int				sync_speed_min;
 	int				sync_speed_max;
 
+	/* resync even though the same disks are shared among md-devices */
+	int				parallel_resync;
+
 	int				ok_start_degraded;
 	/* recovery/resync flags 
 	 * NEEDED:   we might need to start a resync/recover