When a new layout is received in objio_alloc_lseg all device_ids
referenced are retrieved. The device information is queried for from MDS
and then the osd_device is looked-up from the osd-initiator library. The
devices are cached in a per-mount-point list, for later use. At unmount
all devices are "put" back to the library.
objlayout_get_deviceinfo(), objlayout_put_deviceinfo() middleware
API for retrieving device information given a device_id.
TODO: The device cache can get big. Cap its size. Keep an LRU and start
to return devices which were not used, when list gets to big, or
when new entries allocation fail.
[pnfs-obj: Bugs in new global-device-cache code]
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
[gfp_flags]
[use global device cache]
[use layout driver in global device cache]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
objlayout_alloc_lseg prepares an xdr_stream and calls the
raid engins objio_alloc_lseg() to allocate a private
pnfs_layout_segment.
objio_osd.c::objio_alloc_lseg() uses passed xdr_stream to
decode and store the layout_segment information in an
objio_segment struct, using the pnfs_osd_xdr.h API for
the actual parsing the layout xdr.
objlayout_free_lseg calls objio_free_lseg() to free the
allocated space.
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
[gfp_flags]
[removed "extern" from function definitions]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
