Hi, please pull MD update for 4.11, this pull mainly fixes bugs and improves performance: - Improve scalability for raid1 from Coly - Improve raid5-cache read performance, disk efficiency and IO pattern from Song and me - Fix a race condition of disk hotplug for linear from Coly - A few cleanup patches from Ming and Byungchul - Fix a memory leak from Neil - Fix WRITE SAME IO failure from me - Add doc for raid5-cache from me Thanks, Shaohua The following changes since commit 7089db84e356562f8ba737c29e472cc42d530dbc: Linux 4.10-rc8 (2017-02-12 13:03:20 -0800) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md.git for-next for you to fetch changes up to 1ec492232ed659acde8cc00b9ecc7529778e03e1: md/raid1: fix write behind issues introduced by bio_clone_bioset_partial (2017-02-23 11:59:44 -0800) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Byungchul Park (1): md/raid5: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API Ming Lei (5): block: introduce bio_clone_bioset_partial() md: fail if mddev->bio_set can't be created md/raid1: use bio_clone_bioset_partial() in case of write behind md: remove unnecessary check on mddev md: fast clone bio in bio_clone_mddev() NeilBrown (1): md: ensure md devices are freed before module is unloaded. Shaohua Li (10): raid5: only dispatch IO from raid5d for harddisk raid Documentation: move MD related doc into a separate dir MD: add doc for raid5-cache md/raid5-cache: stripe reclaim only counts valid stripes md/raid5-cache: exclude reclaiming stripes in reclaim check md: disable WRITE SAME if it fails in underlayer disks md/raid1: fix a use-after-free bug md/linear: shutup lockdep warnning md/raid1: handle flush request correctly md/raid1: fix write behind issues introduced by bio_clone_bioset_partial Song Liu (3): EXPORT_SYMBOL radix_tree_replace_slot md/r5cache: enable chunk_aligned_read with write back cache md/r5cache: improve journal device efficiency colyli@xxxxxxx (3): md linear: fix a race between linear_add() and linear_congested() RAID1: a new I/O barrier implementation to remove resync window RAID1: avoid unnecessary spin locks in I/O barrier code Documentation/00-INDEX | 4 +- Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst | 5 + Documentation/{ => md}/md-cluster.txt | 0 Documentation/md/raid5-cache.txt | 109 +++++++ block/bio.c | 61 +++- drivers/md/faulty.c | 2 +- drivers/md/linear.c | 41 ++- drivers/md/linear.h | 1 + drivers/md/md.c | 22 +- drivers/md/md.h | 9 +- drivers/md/multipath.c | 1 + drivers/md/raid0.c | 1 + drivers/md/raid1.c | 598 +++++++++++++++++++++------------- drivers/md/raid1.h | 58 ++-- drivers/md/raid10.c | 11 +- drivers/md/raid5-cache.c | 225 +++++++++++-- drivers/md/raid5.c | 129 ++++++-- drivers/md/raid5.h | 7 + include/linux/bio.h | 11 +- lib/radix-tree.c | 1 + 20 files changed, 943 insertions(+), 353 deletions(-) rename Documentation/{ => md}/md-cluster.txt (100%) create mode 100644 Documentation/md/raid5-cache.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html