[sheepdog] [PATCH 0/6] md: add recovery support

[Liu Yuan]

From: Liu Yuan <tailai.ly at taobao.com>

This patch set mainly add md recovery support which unifies node recovery and
disk recovery.

I choose to take advantage of current node recovery mechanism because:
 1. It supports multiple failure events
 2. It provide nice race-free and wait queue mechanism for VM IO requests and
    recovery IO requests.
 3. already-made logic that can recover objects from other nodes. This is very
    crutial to md recovery because we distribute objects across disks without
    extra copies.
 4. Maintan one mechanism is always better than two

So disk failure will simply be seen as a node recovery without epoch lifted and
md recovery has all the merits of node recovery:
 1. multiple disk failures handling
 2. serve VM IO requests while in recovery
 3. can hot-plug and hot-unplug the disks (missing part yet)

Besides, another nice spin-off is that with unified recovery, both node and disk
recovery can suspend and supersede each other (missing part yet)

The missing parts will be implemented in later patch.

Liu Yuan (6):
  sheep: prepare and cleanup err_to_stderr() for MD recovery
  work queue: don't call worker func if not assigned
  recovery: don't allow tgt_epoch decremented to 0
  md: implement automatic recovery
  tests: modify _start_sheep helper with one more disk
  tests: add a test 055 for md

 sheep/journal_file.c |    3 +-
 sheep/md.c           |  236 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 sheep/object_cache.c |    3 +-
 sheep/plain_store.c  |   44 ++++------
 sheep/recovery.c     |    4 +-
 sheep/sheep.c        |    4 +-
 sheep/sheep_priv.h   |    4 +-
 sheep/work.c         |    3 +-
 tests/055            |   46 ++++++++++
 tests/055.out        |   24 +++++
 tests/common.rc      |    2 +-
 tests/group          |    1 +
 12 files changed, 338 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 tests/055
 create mode 100644 tests/055.out

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