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<updated>2013-09-10T20:03:41Z</updated>
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<title>Merge tag 'md/3.12' of git://neil.brown.name/md</title>
<updated>2013-09-10T20:03:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2013-09-10T20:03:41Z</published>
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Pull md update from Neil Brown:
 "Headline item is multithreading for RAID5 so that more IO/sec can be
  supported on fast (SSD) devices.  Also TILE-Gx SIMD suppor for RAID6
  calculations and an assortment of bug fixes"

* tag 'md/3.12' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  raid5: only wakeup necessary threads
  md/raid5: flush out all pending requests before proceeding with reshape.
  md/raid5: use seqcount to protect access to shape in make_request.
  raid5: sysfs entry to control worker thread number
  raid5: offload stripe handle to workqueue
  raid5: fix stripe release order
  raid5: make release_stripe lockless
  md: avoid deadlock when dirty buffers during md_stop.
  md: Don't test all of mddev-&gt;flags at once.
  md: Fix apparent cut-and-paste error in super_90_validate
  raid6/test: replace echo -e with printf
  RAID: add tilegx SIMD implementation of raid6
  md: fix safe_mode buglet.
  md: don't call md_allow_write in get_bitmap_file.
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<title>RAID: add tilegx SIMD implementation of raid6</title>
<updated>2013-08-27T06:05:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ken Steele</name>
<email>ken@tilera.com</email>
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<published>2013-08-07T16:39:56Z</published>
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This change adds TILE-Gx SIMD instructions to the software raid
(md), modeling the Altivec implementation. This is only for Syndrome
generation; there is more that could be done to improve recovery,
as in the recent Intel SSE3 recovery implementation.

The code unrolls 8 times; this turns out to be the best on tilegx
hardware among the set 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16.  The code reads one
cache-line of data from each disk, stores P and Q then goes to the
next cache-line.

The test code in sys/linux/lib/raid6/test reports 2008 MB/s data
read rate for syndrome generation using 18 disks (16 data and 2
parity). It was 1512 MB/s before this SIMD optimizations. This is
running on 1 core with all the data in cache.

This is based on the paper The Mathematics of RAID-6.
(http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/raid6.pdf).

Signed-off-by: Ken Steele &lt;ken@tilera.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<title>lib/raid6: add ARM-NEON accelerated syndrome calculation</title>
<updated>2013-07-08T21:09:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
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<published>2013-05-16T15:20:32Z</published>
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Rebased/reworked a patch contributed by Rob Herring that uses
NEON intrinsics to perform the RAID-6 syndrome calculations.
It uses the existing unroll.awk code to generate several
unrolled versions of which the best performing one is selected
at boot time.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: hpa@linux.intel.com
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<title>UAPI: Remove empty Kbuild files</title>
<updated>2013-01-03T01:36:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2013-01-02T15:12:55Z</published>
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Empty files can get deleted by the patch program, so remove empty Kbuild
files and their links from the parent Kbuilds.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized gen_syndrome functions</title>
<updated>2012-12-13T08:51:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuanhan Liu</name>
<email>yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com</email>
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<published>2012-11-30T21:10:39Z</published>
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Add AVX2 optimized gen_syndrom functions, which is simply based on
sse2.c written by hpa.

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu &lt;yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jim Kukunas &lt;james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<title>lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized recovery functions</title>
<updated>2012-12-13T05:42:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jim Kukunas</name>
<email>james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-08T21:47:44Z</published>
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Optimize RAID6 recovery functions to take advantage of
the 256-bit YMM integer instructions introduced in AVX2.

The patch was tested and benchmarked before submission.
However hardware is not yet released so benchmark numbers
cannot be reported.

Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jim Kukunas &lt;james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<title>UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux/raid</title>
<updated>2012-10-09T08:49:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2012-10-09T08:49:02Z</published>
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Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>lib/raid6: Add SSSE3 optimized recovery functions</title>
<updated>2012-05-22T03:54:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jim Kukunas</name>
<email>james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com</email>
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<published>2012-05-22T03:54:18Z</published>
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Add SSSE3 optimized recovery functions, as well as a system
for selecting the most appropriate recovery functions to use.

Originally-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jim Kukunas &lt;james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<title>md: add possibility to change data-offset for devices.</title>
<updated>2012-05-20T23:27:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
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<published>2012-05-20T23:27:00Z</published>
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When reshaping we can avoid costly intermediate backup by
changing the 'start' address of the array on the device
(if there is enough room).

So as a first step, allow such a change to be requested
through sysfs, and recorded in v1.x metadata.

(As we didn't previous check that all 'pad' fields were zero,
 we need a new FEATURE flag for this.
 A (belatedly) check that all remaining 'pad' fields are
 zero to avoid a repeat of this)

The new data offset must be requested separately for each device.
This allows each to have a different change in the data offset.
This is not likely to be used often but as data_offset can be
set per-device, new_data_offset should be too.

This patch also removes the 'acknowledged' arg to rdev_set_badblocks as
it is never used and never will be.  At the same time we add a new
arg ('in_new') which is currently always zero but will be used more
soon.

When a reshape finishes we will need to update the data_offset
and rdev-&gt;sectors.  So provide an exported function to do that.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<title>md: allow a reshape operation to be reversed.</title>
<updated>2012-05-20T23:27:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
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<published>2012-05-20T23:27:00Z</published>
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Currently a reshape operation always progresses from the start
of the array to the end unless the number of devices is being
reduced, in which case it progressed in the opposite direction.

To reverse a partial reshape which changes the number of devices
you can stop the array and re-assemble with the raid-disks numbers
reversed and it will undo.

However for a reshape that does not change the number of devices
it is not possible to reverse the reshape in the middle - you have to
wait until it completes.

So add a 'reshape_direction' attribute with is either 'forwards' or
'backwards' and can be explicitly set when delta_disks is zero.

This will become more important when we allow the data_offset to
change in a reshape.  Then the explicit statement of what direction is
being used will be more useful.

This can be enabled in raid5 trivially as it already supports
reverse reshape and just needs to use a different trigger to request it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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