This patches reflect dm-cache changes that have been staged in linux-next for the v3.13 merge. I'm posting these to give a heads up that we've chosen to resort to "plan-b" on the approach taken for supporting cache block invalidation (while simpler in approach, eliminates use of the shim/stack policy interface and the era shim stacked ontop of the mq policy, it will require near-term follow-on work to have a separate "era" target that sits between the SSD and cache target -- this work will land in v3.14). Joe will elaborate on the overall direction and approach associated with "plan-b" shortly. For now, the first step is a more minimalist implementation for cache block invalidation for v3.13. All patches for v3.13 can be found in the 'for-next' branch of the linux-dm.git repo, see: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/log/?h=for-next Joe Thornber (6): dm cache: cache shrinking support dm cache: add passthrough mode dm cache metadata: check the metadata version when reading the superblock dm cache policy mq: reduce memory requirements dm cache: add remove_cblock method to policy interface dm cache: add cache block invalidation support Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt | 31 ++- drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c | 95 ++++++- drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.h | 5 + drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-internal.h | 5 + drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-mq.c | 572 +++++++++++++++------------------ drivers/md/dm-cache-policy.h | 21 +- drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c | 497 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 7 files changed, 859 insertions(+), 367 deletions(-) -- 1.7.4.4 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
