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    Merge branch 'for-3.20/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block · 8494bcf5
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull block driver changes from Jens Axboe:
     "This contains:
    
       - The 4k/partition fixes for brd from Boaz/Matthew.
    
       - A few xen front/back block fixes from David Vrabel and Roger Pau
         Monne.
    
       - Floppy changes from Takashi, cleaning the device file creation.
    
       - Switching libata to use the new blk-mq tagging policy, removing
         code (and a suboptimal implementation) from libata.  This will
         throw you a merge conflict, since a bug in the original libata
         tagging code was fixed since this code was branched.  Trivial.
         From Shaohua.
    
       - Conversion of loop to blk-mq, from Ming Lei.
    
       - Cleanup of the io_schedule() handling in bsg from Peter Zijlstra.
         He claims it improves on unreadable code, which will cost him a
         beer.
    
       - Maintainer update or NDB, now handled by Markus Pargmann.
    
       - NVMe:
            - Optimization from me that avoids a kmalloc/kfree per IO for
              smaller (<= 8KB) IO. This cuts about 1% of high IOPS CPU
              overhead.
            - Removal of (now) dead RCU code, a relic from before NVMe was
              converted to blk-mq"
    
    * 'for-3.20/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
      xen-blkback: default to X86_32 ABI on x86
      xen-blkfront: fix accounting of reqs when migrating
      xen-blkback,xen-blkfront: add myself as maintainer
      block: Simplify bsg complete all
      floppy: Avoid manual call of device_create_file()
      NVMe: avoid kmalloc/kfree for smaller IO
      MAINTAINERS: Update NBD maintainer
      libata: make sata_sil24 use fifo tag allocator
      libata: move sas ata tag allocation to libata-scsi.c
      libata: use blk taging
      NVMe: within nvme_free_queues(), delete RCU sychro/deferred free
      null_blk: suppress invalid partition info
      brd: Request from fdisk 4k alignment
      brd: Fix all partitions BUGs
      axonram: Fix bug in direct_access
      loop: add blk-mq.h include
      block: loop: don't handle REQ_FUA explicitly
      block: loop: introduce lo_discard() and lo_req_flush()
      block: loop: say goodby to bio
      block: loop: improve performance via blk-mq
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