md: handle operation chaining in raid5_run_ops

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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

Neil said:
> At the end of ops_run_compute5 you have:
>         /* ack now if postxor is not set to be run */
>         if (tx && !test_bit(STRIPE_OP_POSTXOR, &s->ops_run))
>                 async_tx_ack(tx);
>
> It looks odd having that test there.  Would it fit in raid5_run_ops
> better?

The intended global interpretation is that raid5_run_ops can build a chain
of xor and memcpy operations.  When MD registers the compute-xor it tells
async_tx to keep the operation handle around so that another item in the
dependency chain can be submitted. If we are just computing a block to
satisfy a read then we can terminate the chain immediately.  raid5_run_ops
gives a better context for this test since it cares about the entire chain.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>

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Dan Williams 2008-06-28 08:32:09 +10:00 • committed by Neil Brown

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