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
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n = pages_in_stripe_unit;
w = group_width - parity;
| pages array presented to the XOR lib
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V |
__1_page_stripe[0].pages --> [c0][c1]..[cw][c_par] <---|
| |
__1_page_stripe[1].pages --> [c0][c1]..[cw][c_par] <---
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... | ...
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__1_page_stripe[n].pages --> [c0][c1]..[cw]...
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