Commit 769ba8d9 authored by Boaz Harrosh's avatar Boaz Harrosh
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ore: RAID5 Write

This is finally the RAID5 Write support.

The bigger part of this patch is not the XOR engine itself, But the
read4write logic, which is a complete mini prepare_for_striping
reading engine that can read scattered pages of a stripe into cache
so it can be used for XOR calculation. That is, if the write was not
stripe aligned.

The main algorithm behind the XOR engine is the 2 dimensional array:
	struct __stripe_pages_2d.
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__stripe_pages_2d
       |
 n = pages_in_stripe_unit;
 w = group_width - parity;
       |                            pages array presented to the XOR lib
       |                                                |
       V                                                |
 __1_page_stripe[0].pages --> [c0][c1]..[cw][c_par] <---|
       |                                                |
 __1_page_stripe[1].pages --> [c0][c1]..[cw][c_par] <---
       |
...    |                         ...
       |
 __1_page_stripe[n].pages --> [c0][c1]..[cw]...
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