On Fri, Aug 07 2020 at 12:03pm -0400,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> The following changes since commit 11ba468877bb23f28956a35e896356252d63c983:
>
> Linux 5.8-rc5 (2020-07-12 16:34:50 -0700)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git tags/for-5.9/dm-changes
>
> for you to fetch changes up to a9cb9f4148ef6bb8fabbdaa85c42b2171fbd5a0d:
>
> dm: don't call report zones for more than the user requested (2020-08-04 16:31:12 -0400)
>
> Please pull, thanks!
> Mike
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> - DM multipath locking fixes around m->flags tests and improvements to
> bio-based code so that it follows patterns established by
> request-based code.
>
> - Request-based DM core improvement to eliminate unnecessary call to
> blk_mq_queue_stopped().
>
> - Add "panic_on_corruption" error handling mode to DM verity target.
>
> - DM bufio fix to to perform buffer cleanup from a workqueue rather
> than wait for IO in reclaim context from shrinker.
>
> - DM crypt improvement to optionally avoid async processing via
> workqueues for reads and/or writes -- via "no_read_workqueue" and
> "no_write_workqueue" features. This more direct IO processing
> improves latency and throughput with faster storage. Avoiding
> workqueue IO submission for writes (DM_CRYPT_NO_WRITE_WORKQUEUE) is
> a requirement for adding zoned block device support to DM crypt.
I forgot to note that you'll get a trivial merge conflict in dm-crypt.c
due to commit ed00aabd5eb9f (" block: rename generic_make_request to
submit_bio_noacct").
Mike
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