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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dmLinus Torvalds authored
Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer: "This pull request is later than I'd have liked because I was waiting for some performance data to help finally justify sending the long-standing dm-crypt cpu scalability improvements upstream. Unfortunately we came up short, so those dm-crypt changes will continue to wait, but it seems we're not far off. . Add dm_accept_partial_bio interface to DM core to allow DM targets to only process a portion of a bio, the remainder being sent in the next bio. This enables the old dm snapshot-origin target to only split write bios on chunk boundaries, read bios are now sent to the origin device unchanged. . Add DM core support for disabling WRITE SAME if the underlying SCSI layer disables it due to command failure. . Reduce lock contention in DM's bio-prison. . A few small cleanups and fixes to dm-thin and dm-era" * tag ...
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