linux-kernel - [PATCH 009 of 29] md: Don't try to make md arrays dirty if that is not meaningful.

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Date:	Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:50:16 +1000
From:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 009 of 29] md: Don't try to make md arrays dirty if that is not meaningful.

Arrays personalities such as 'raid0' and 'linear' have no redundancy,
and so marking them as 'clean' or 'dirty' is not meaningful.
So always allow write requests without requiring a superblock update.

Such arrays types are detected by ->sync_request being NULL.  If it is
not possible to send a sync request we don't need a 'dirty' flag because
all a dirty flag does is trigger some sync_requests.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>

### Diffstat output
 ./drivers/md/md.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff .prev/drivers/md/md.c ./drivers/md/md.c
--- .prev/drivers/md/md.c	2008-06-27 15:31:35.000000000 +1000
+++ ./drivers/md/md.c	2008-06-27 15:33:00.000000000 +1000
@@ -5536,6 +5536,8 @@ void md_allow_write(mddev_t *mddev)
 		return;
 	if (mddev->ro)
 		return;
+	if (!mddev->pers->sync_request)
+		return;

 	spin_lock_irq(&mddev->write_lock);
 	if (mddev->in_sync) {
--
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