[dm-devel] [git pull] device-mapper updates for 3.5

Alasdair G Kergon agk at redhat.com
Sat Jun 2 22:22:54 UTC 2012


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.

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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(-)




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