cache_block_size
. Fix a lock-inversion detected by LOCKDEP in dm-cache
. Fix a dangling bio bug in the dm-thinp target's process_deferred_bios
error path
. Fix corruption due to non-atomic transaction commit which allowed a
metadata superblock to be written before all other metadata was
successfully written -- this is common to all targets that use the
persistent-data library's transaction manager (dm-thinp, dm-cache and
dm-era).
. Various small cleanups in the DM core
. Add the dm-era target which is useful for keeping track of which
blocks were written within a user defined period of time called an
'era'. Use cases include tracking changed blocks for backup software,
and partially invalidating the contents of a cache to restore cache
coherency after rolling back a vendor snapshot.
. Improve the on-disk layout of multithreaded writes to the dm-thin-pool
by splitting the pool's deferred bio list to be a per-thin device list
and then sorting that list using an rb_tree. The subsequent read
throughput of the data written via multiple threads improved by ~70%.
. Simplify the multipath target's handling of queuing IO by pushing
requests back to the request queue rather than queueing the IO
internally.
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Merge tag 'dm-3.15-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
Pull device mapper changes from Mike Snitzer:
- Fix dm-cache corruption caused by discard_block_size > cache_block_size
- Fix a lock-inversion detected by LOCKDEP in dm-cache
- Fix a dangling bio bug in the dm-thinp target's process_deferred_bios
error path
- Fix corruption due to non-atomic transaction commit which allowed a
metadata superblock to be written before all other metadata was
successfully written -- this is common to all targets that use the
persistent-data library's transaction manager (dm-thinp, dm-cache and
dm-era).
- Various small cleanups in the DM core
- Add the dm-era target which is useful for keeping track of which
blocks were written within a user defined period of time called an
'era'. Use cases include tracking changed blocks for backup
software, and partially invalidating the contents of a cache to
restore cache coherency after rolling back a vendor snapshot.
- Improve the on-disk layout of multithreaded writes to the
dm-thin-pool by splitting the pool's deferred bio list to be a
per-thin device list and then sorting that list using an rb_tree.
The subsequent read throughput of the data written via multiple
threads improved by ~70%.
- Simplify the multipath target's handling of queuing IO by pushing
requests back to the request queue rather than queueing the IO
internally.
* tag 'dm-3.15-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (24 commits)
dm cache: fix a lock-inversion
dm thin: sort the per thin deferred bios using an rb_tree
dm thin: use per thin device deferred bio lists
dm thin: simplify pool_is_congested
dm thin: fix dangling bio in process_deferred_bios error path
dm mpath: print more useful warnings in multipath_message()
dm-mpath: do not activate failed paths
dm mpath: remove extra nesting in map function
dm mpath: remove map_io()
dm mpath: reduce memory pressure when requeuing
dm mpath: remove process_queued_ios()
dm mpath: push back requests instead of queueing
dm table: add dm_table_run_md_queue_async
dm mpath: do not call pg_init when it is already running
dm: use RCU_INIT_POINTER instead of rcu_assign_pointer in __unbind
dm: stop using bi_private
dm: remove dm_get_mapinfo
dm: make dm_table_alloc_md_mempools static
dm: take care to copy the space map roots before locking the superblock
dm transaction manager: fix corruption due to non-atomic transaction commit
...
Linus Torvalds