dm stripe: support for non power of 2 chunksize

Support non-power-of-2 chunk sizes with dm striping for proper alignment
of stripe IO on storage that has non-power-of-2 optimal IO sizes (e.g.
RAID6 10+2).

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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Mike Snitzer 2012-07-27 15:08:01 +01:00 committed by Alasdair G Kergon
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commit eb850de608
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@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ devices in parallel.
Parameters: <num devs> <chunk size> [<dev path> <offset>]+
<num devs>: Number of underlying devices.
<chunk size>: Size of each chunk of data. Must be a power-of-2 and at
least as large as the system's PAGE_SIZE.
<chunk size>: Size of each chunk of data. Must be at least as
large as the system's PAGE_SIZE.
<dev path>: Full pathname to the underlying block-device, or a
"major:minor" device-number.
<offset>: Starting sector within the device.