[PATCH] dm snapshot: add workqueue

Add a workqueue so that I/O can be queued up to be flushed from a separate
thread (e.g.  if local interrupts are disabled).

A new per-snapshot spinlock pe_lock is introduced to protect queued_bios.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-snap.h b/drivers/md/dm-snap.h
index 221eb8880c80..15fa2ae6cdc2 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-snap.h
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-snap.h
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@
 #define DM_SNAPSHOT_H
 
 #include "dm.h"
+#include "dm-bio-list.h"
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
 
 struct exception_table {
         uint32_t hash_mask;
@@ -112,10 +114,20 @@ struct dm_snapshot {
         struct exception_table pending;
         struct exception_table complete;
 
+        /*
+         * pe_lock protects all pending_exception operations and access
+         * as well as the snapshot_bios list.
+         */
+        spinlock_t pe_lock;
+
         /* The on disk metadata handler */
         struct exception_store store;
 
         struct kcopyd_client *kcopyd_client;
+
+        /* Queue of snapshot writes for ksnapd to flush */
+        struct bio_list queued_bios;
+        struct work_struct queued_bios_work;
 };
 
 /*