Highlights:
- "experimental" code for managing md/raid1 across a cluster using
DLM. Code is not ready for general use and triggers a WARNING if used.
However it is looking good and mostly done and having in mainline
will help co-ordinate development.
- RAID5/6 can now batch multiple (4K wide) stripe_heads so as to
handle a full (chunk wide) stripe as a single unit.
- RAID6 can now perform read-modify-write cycles which should
help performance on larger arrays: 6 or more devices.
- RAID5/6 stripe cache now grows and shrinks dynamically. The value
set is used as a minimum.
- Resync is now allowed to go a little faster than the 'mininum' when
there is competing IO. How much faster depends on the speed of the
devices, so the effective minimum should scale with device speed to
some extent.
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Merge tag 'md/4.1' of git://neil.brown.name/md
Pull md updates from Neil Brown:
"More updates that usual this time. A few have performance impacts
which hould mostly be positive, but RAID5 (in particular) can be very
work-load ensitive... We'll have to wait and see.
Highlights:
- "experimental" code for managing md/raid1 across a cluster using
DLM. Code is not ready for general use and triggers a WARNING if
used. However it is looking good and mostly done and having in
mainline will help co-ordinate development.
- RAID5/6 can now batch multiple (4K wide) stripe_heads so as to
handle a full (chunk wide) stripe as a single unit.
- RAID6 can now perform read-modify-write cycles which should help
performance on larger arrays: 6 or more devices.
- RAID5/6 stripe cache now grows and shrinks dynamically. The value
set is used as a minimum.
- Resync is now allowed to go a little faster than the 'mininum' when
there is competing IO. How much faster depends on the speed of the
devices, so the effective minimum should scale with device speed to
some extent"
* tag 'md/4.1' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (58 commits)
md/raid5: don't do chunk aligned read on degraded array.
md/raid5: allow the stripe_cache to grow and shrink.
md/raid5: change ->inactive_blocked to a bit-flag.
md/raid5: move max_nr_stripes management into grow_one_stripe and drop_one_stripe
md/raid5: pass gfp_t arg to grow_one_stripe()
md/raid5: introduce configuration option rmw_level
md/raid5: activate raid6 rmw feature
md/raid6 algorithms: xor_syndrome() for SSE2
md/raid6 algorithms: xor_syndrome() for generic int
md/raid6 algorithms: improve test program
md/raid6 algorithms: delta syndrome functions
raid5: handle expansion/resync case with stripe batching
raid5: handle io error of batch list
RAID5: batch adjacent full stripe write
raid5: track overwrite disk count
raid5: add a new flag to track if a stripe can be batched
raid5: use flex_array for scribble data
md raid0: access mddev->queue (request queue member) conditionally because it is not set when accessed from dm-raid
md: allow resync to go faster when there is competing IO.
md: remove 'go_faster' option from ->sync_request()
...
Linus Torvalds
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