2015-12-30 18:17:09

by Jens Axboe

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Subject: [GIT PULL] Make the block layer great again

Hi Linus,

Basically three amazing fixes in this pull request, split into 4
patches. Believe me, they should go into 4.4. Two of them fix a
regression, the third and last fixes an easy-to-trigger bug.

- Fix a bad irq enable through null_blk, for queue_mode=1 and using
timer completions. Add a block helper to restart a queue
asynchronously, and use that from null_blk. From me.

- Fix a performance issue in NVMe. Some devices (Intel Pxxxx) expose a
stripe boundary, and performance suffers if we cross it. We took that
into account for merging, but not for the newer splitting code. Fix
from Keith.

- Fix a kernel oops in lightnvm with multiple channels. From Matias.

Please pull!


git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block.git for-linus


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Jens Axboe (2):
block: add blk_start_queue_async()
null_blk: use async queue restart helper

Keith Busch (1):
block: Split bios on chunk boundaries

Matias Bj?rling (1):
lightnvm: wrong offset in bad blk lun calculation

block/blk-core.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
block/blk-merge.c | 2 +-
drivers/block/null_blk.c | 11 +++++------
drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c | 2 +-
include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 +
5 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

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Jens Axboe