Re: Does raid5 have error handling while reading?

[Xu Yuehai <raid.yuehai@gmail.com>]

>
> If chunk_aligned_read results in an error, then the request
> is re-tried through the stripe cache.  I would call that "error handling".

I think you mean that error() and raid5_align_endio are invoked and
the read request is sent to conf->retry_read_aligned_list, then the
raid5d will handle it.

> If the cache finds that a drives is failed, the data is calculated
> from the other drives, though the code is not a straight forward
> as it used to be.
> See fetch_block5 which sets STRIPE_OP_COMPUTE_BLK which causes
> ops_run_compute5 to do the work (or to schedule the work on separate
> hardware).
>
I notice that the bit STRIPE_OP_COMPUTE_BLK is set if only s->uptodate
== disks - 1, however, suppose there is just a single read request, I
fail to find out why this condition is satisfied.

Yuehai