dm snapshot: skip reading origin when overwriting complete chunk

If we write a full chunk in the snapshot, skip reading the origin device
because the whole chunk will be overwritten anyway.

This patch changes the snapshot write logic when a full chunk is written.
In this case:
  1. allocate the exception
  2. dispatch the bio (but don't report the bio completion to device mapper)
  3. write the exception record
  4. report bio completed

Callbacks must be done through the kcopyd thread, because callbacks must not
race with each other.  So we create two new functions:

  dm_kcopyd_prepare_callback: allocate a job structure and prepare the callback.
  (This function must not be called from interrupt context.)

  dm_kcopyd_do_callback: submit callback.
  (This function may be called from interrupt context.)

Performance test (on snapshots with 4k chunk size):
  without the patch:
    non-direct-io sequential write (dd):    17.7MB/s
    direct-io sequential write (dd):        20.9MB/s
    non-direct-io random write (mkfs.ext2): 0.44s

  with the patch:
    non-direct-io sequential write (dd):    26.5MB/s
    direct-io sequential write (dd):        33.2MB/s
    non-direct-io random write (mkfs.ext2): 0.27s

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c b/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c
index 98725e119324..f82147029636 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c
@@ -617,6 +617,37 @@ int dm_kcopyd_copy(struct dm_kcopyd_client *kc, struct dm_io_region *from,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dm_kcopyd_copy);
 
+void *dm_kcopyd_prepare_callback(struct dm_kcopyd_client *kc,
+                                 dm_kcopyd_notify_fn fn, void *context)
+{
+        struct kcopyd_job *job;
+
+        job = mempool_alloc(kc->job_pool, GFP_NOIO);
+
+        memset(job, 0, sizeof(struct kcopyd_job));
+        job->kc = kc;
+        job->fn = fn;
+        job->context = context;
+
+        atomic_inc(&kc->nr_jobs);
+
+        return job;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(dm_kcopyd_prepare_callback);
+
+void dm_kcopyd_do_callback(void *j, int read_err, unsigned long write_err)
+{
+        struct kcopyd_job *job = j;
+        struct dm_kcopyd_client *kc = job->kc;
+
+        job->read_err = read_err;
+        job->write_err = write_err;
+
+        push(&kc->complete_jobs, job);
+        wake(kc);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(dm_kcopyd_do_callback);
+
 /*
  * Cancels a kcopyd job, eg. someone might be deactivating a
  * mirror.