Commit 474095e4 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge tag 'md/4.1' of git://neil.brown.name/md

Pull md updates from Neil Brown:
 "More updates that usual this time.  A few have performance impacts
  which hould mostly be positive, but RAID5 (in particular) can be very
  work-load ensitive...  We'll have to wait and see.

  Highlights:

   - "experimental" code for managing md/raid1 across a cluster using
     DLM.  Code is not ready for general use and triggers a WARNING if
     used.  However it is looking good and mostly done and having in
     mainline will help co-ordinate development.

   - RAID5/6 can now batch multiple (4K wide) stripe_heads so as to
     handle a full (chunk wide) stripe as a single unit.

   - RAID6 can now perform read-modify-write cycles which should help
     performance on larger arrays: 6 or more devices.

   - RAID5/6 stripe cache now grows and shrinks dynamically.  The value
     set is used as a minimum.

   - Resync is now allowed to go a little faster than the 'mininum' when
     there is competing IO.  How much fast...
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