performance requirements that were requested by the Gluster
distributed filesystem. Specifically, dm-thinp now takes care to
aggregate IO that will be issued to the same thinp block before
issuing IO to the underlying devices. This really helps improve
performance on HW RAID6 devices that have a writeback cache because it
avoids RMW in the HW RAID controller.
- Some stable fixes: fix leak in DM bufio if integrity profiles were
enabled, use memzero_explicit in DM crypt to avoid any potential for
information leak, and a DM cache fix to properly mark a cache block
dirty if it was promoted to the cache via the overwrite optimization.
- A few simple DM persistent data library fixes
- DM cache multiqueue policy block promotion improvements.
- DM cache discard improvements that take advantage of range
(multiblock) discard support in the DM bio-prison. This allows for
much more efficient bulk discard processing (e.g. when mkfs.xfs
discards the entire device).
- Some small optimizations in DM core and RCU deference cleanups
- DM core changes to suspend/resume code to introduce the new internal
suspend/resume interface that the DM thin-pool target now uses to
suspend/resume active thin devices when the thin-pool must
suspend/resume. This avoids forcing userspace to track all active
thin volumes in a thin-pool when the thin-pool is suspended for the
purposes of metadata or data space resize.
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Merge tag 'dm-3.19-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:
- Significant DM thin-provisioning performance improvements to meet
performance requirements that were requested by the Gluster
distributed filesystem.
Specifically, dm-thinp now takes care to aggregate IO that will be
issued to the same thinp block before issuing IO to the underlying
devices. This really helps improve performance on HW RAID6 devices
that have a writeback cache because it avoids RMW in the HW RAID
controller.
- Some stable fixes: fix leak in DM bufio if integrity profiles were
enabled, use memzero_explicit in DM crypt to avoid any potential for
information leak, and a DM cache fix to properly mark a cache block
dirty if it was promoted to the cache via the overwrite optimization.
- A few simple DM persistent data library fixes
- DM cache multiqueue policy block promotion improvements.
- DM cache discard improvements that take advantage of range
(multiblock) discard support in the DM bio-prison. This allows for
much more efficient bulk discard processing (e.g. when mkfs.xfs
discards the entire device).
- Some small optimizations in DM core and RCU deference cleanups
- DM core changes to suspend/resume code to introduce the new internal
suspend/resume interface that the DM thin-pool target now uses to
suspend/resume active thin devices when the thin-pool must
suspend/resume.
This avoids forcing userspace to track all active thin volumes in a
thin-pool when the thin-pool is suspended for the purposes of
metadata or data space resize.
* tag 'dm-3.19-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (49 commits)
dm crypt: use memzero_explicit for on-stack buffer
dm space map metadata: fix sm_bootstrap_get_count()
dm space map metadata: fix sm_bootstrap_get_nr_blocks()
dm bufio: fix memleak when using a dm_buffer's inline bio
dm cache: fix spurious cell_defer when dealing with partial block at end of device
dm cache: dirty flag was mistakenly being cleared when promoting via overwrite
dm cache: only use overwrite optimisation for promotion when in writeback mode
dm cache: discard block size must be a multiple of cache block size
dm cache: fix a harmless race when working out if a block is discarded
dm cache: when reloading a discard bitset allow for a different discard block size
dm cache: fix some issues with the new discard range support
dm array: if resizing the array is a noop set the new root to the old one
dm: use rcu_dereference_protected instead of rcu_dereference
dm thin: fix pool_io_hints to avoid looking at max_hw_sectors
dm thin: suspend/resume active thin devices when reloading thin-pool
dm: enhance internal suspend and resume interface
dm thin: do not allow thin device activation while pool is suspended
dm: add presuspend_undo hook to target_type
dm: return earlier from dm_blk_ioctl if target doesn't implement .ioctl
dm thin: remove stale 'trim' message in block comment above pool_message
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Linus Torvalds