2012-06-02 22:23:16

by Alasdair G Kergon

Subject: [git pull] device-mapper updates for 3.5

Please pull from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm tags/dm-3.5-changes

to get the following device-mapper updates for 3.5.

Thanks,
Alasdair

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Improve multipath's retrying mechanism in some defined circumstances
and provide a simple reserve/release mechanism for userspace tools to
access thin provisioning metadata while the pool is in use.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Joe Thornber (1):
dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata

Mike Christie (1):
dm mpath: delay retry of bypassed pg

Mike Snitzer (2):
dm mpath: reduce size of struct multipath
dm thin: use slab mempools

Mikulas Patocka (1):
dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init

Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt | 11 ++
drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 47 +++--
drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c | 136 +++++++++++++-
drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.h | 13 +-
drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 203 ++++++++++++++-------
5 files changed, 320 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)

2012-06-02 23:48:26

by Alasdair G Kergon

Subject: Re: [git pull] device-mapper updates for 3.5

Revised version dealing with a couple of symbols reported by Fengguang Wu.

Please pull from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm tags/dm-3.5-changes-1

to get the following device-mapper updates for 3.5.

Thanks,
Alasdair

----------------------------------------------------------------
Improve multipath's retrying mechanism in some defined circumstances
and provide a simple reserve/release mechanism for userspace tools to
access thin provisioning metadata while the pool is in use.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Joe Thornber (1):
dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata

Mike Christie (1):
dm mpath: delay retry of bypassed pg

Mike Snitzer (2):
dm mpath: reduce size of struct multipath
dm thin: use slab mempools

Mikulas Patocka (1):
dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init

Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt | 11 ++
drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 47 +++--
drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c | 136 ++++++++++++-
drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.h | 13 +-
drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 203 ++++++++++++++------
.../md/persistent-data/dm-transaction-manager.c | 2 +
6 files changed, 322 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)