Improve AF hard disk detection
authorBrian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Sun, 2 Sep 2012 23:34:12 +0000 (16:34 -0700)
committerBrian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Tue, 4 Sep 2012 22:35:32 +0000 (15:35 -0700)
commit395350c85d9903beba43bac7ae79092ae25f1526
treee1bd38ebaa3c1ba06d5eaa61bca7e3afee64bd6c
parent594b4dd82a6ba6b046b894a24986ce727f4d7391
Improve AF hard disk detection

Use the bdev_physical_block_size() interface to determine the
minimize write size which can be issued without incurring a
read-modify-write operation.  This is used to set the ashift
correctly to prevent a performance penalty when using AF hard
disks.

Unfortunately, this interface isn't entirely reliable because
it's not uncommon for disks to misreport this value.  For this
reason you may still need to manually set your ashift with:

  zpool create -o ashift=12 ...

The solution to this in the upstream Illumos source was to add
a while list of known offending drives.  Maintaining such a list
will be a burden, but it still may be worth doing if we can
detect a large number of these drives.  This should be considered
as future work.

Reported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #916
config/kernel-bdev-physical-size.m4 [new file with mode: 0644]
config/kernel.m4
include/linux/blkdev_compat.h
zfs_config.h.in