walk; this is critical to allow forward progress without the need to
use the bioset's BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER.
- Remove DM core's BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER based dm_offload infrastructure.
- DM core cleanups and improvements to make bio-based DM more efficient
(e.g. reduced memory footprint as well leveraging per-bio-data more).
- Introduce new bio-based mode (DM_TYPE_NVME_BIO_BASED) that leverages
the more direct IO submission path in the block layer; this mode is
used by DM multipath and also optimizes targets like DM thin-pool that
stack directly on NVMe data device.
- DM multipath improvements to factor out legacy SCSI-only
(e.g. scsi_dh) code paths to allow for more optimized support for NVMe
multipath.
- A fix for DM multipath path selectors (service-time and queue-length)
to select paths in a more balanced way; largely academic but doesn't
hurt.
- Numerous DM raid target fixes and improvements.
- Add a new DM "unstriped" target that enables Intel to workaround
firmware limitations in some NVMe drives that are striped internally
(this target also works when stacked above the DM "striped" target).
- Various Documentation fixes and improvements.
- Misc. cleanups and fixes across various DM infrastructure and targets
(e.g. bufio, flakey, log-writes, snapshot).
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Merge tag 'for-4.16/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:
- DM core fixes to ensure that bio submission follows a depth-first
tree walk; this is critical to allow forward progress without the
need to use the bioset's BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER.
- Remove DM core's BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER based dm_offload infrastructure.
- DM core cleanups and improvements to make bio-based DM more efficient
(e.g. reduced memory footprint as well leveraging per-bio-data more).
- Introduce new bio-based mode (DM_TYPE_NVME_BIO_BASED) that leverages
the more direct IO submission path in the block layer; this mode is
used by DM multipath and also optimizes targets like DM thin-pool
that stack directly on NVMe data device.
- DM multipath improvements to factor out legacy SCSI-only (e.g.
scsi_dh) code paths to allow for more optimized support for NVMe
multipath.
- A fix for DM multipath path selectors (service-time and queue-length)
to select paths in a more balanced way; largely academic but doesn't
hurt.
- Numerous DM raid target fixes and improvements.
- Add a new DM "unstriped" target that enables Intel to workaround
firmware limitations in some NVMe drives that are striped internally
(this target also works when stacked above the DM "striped" target).
- Various Documentation fixes and improvements.
- Misc cleanups and fixes across various DM infrastructure and targets
(e.g. bufio, flakey, log-writes, snapshot).
* tag 'for-4.16/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (69 commits)
dm cache: Documentation: update default migration_throttling value
dm mpath selector: more evenly distribute ties
dm unstripe: fix target length versus number of stripes size check
dm thin: fix trailing semicolon in __remap_and_issue_shared_cell
dm table: fix NVMe bio-based dm_table_determine_type() validation
dm: various cleanups to md->queue initialization code
dm mpath: delay the retry of a request if the target responded as busy
dm mpath: return DM_MAPIO_DELAY_REQUEUE if QUEUE_IO or PG_INIT_REQUIRED
dm mpath: return DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE on blk-mq rq allocation failure
dm log writes: fix max length used for kstrndup
dm: backfill missing calls to mutex_destroy()
dm snapshot: use mutex instead of rw_semaphore
dm flakey: check for null arg_name in parse_features()
dm thin: extend thinpool status format string with omitted fields
dm thin: fixes in thin-provisioning.txt
dm thin: document representation of <highest mapped sector> when there is none
dm thin: fix documentation relative to low water mark threshold
dm cache: be consistent in specifying sectors and SI units in cache.txt
dm cache: delete obsoleted paragraph in cache.txt
dm cache: fix grammar in cache-policies.txt
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