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Carlos Maiolino b939bcdca3 xfs: shard the realtime section [v5.5 06/10]
Right now, the realtime section uses a single pair of metadata inodes to
 store the free space information.  This presents a scalability problem
 since every thread trying to allocate or free rt extents have to lock
 these files.  Solve this problem by sharding the realtime section into
 separate realtime allocation groups.
 
 While we're at it, define a superblock to be stamped into the start of
 the rt section.  This enables utilities such as blkid to identify block
 devices containing realtime sections, and avoids the situation where
 anything written into block 0 of the realtime extent can be
 misinterpreted as file data.
 
 The best advantage for rtgroups will become evident later when we get to
 adding rmap and reflink to the realtime volume, since the geometry
 constraints are the same for rt groups and AGs.  Hence we can reuse all
 that code directly.
 
 This is a very large patchset, but it catches us up with 20 years of
 technical debt that have accumulated.
 
 With a bit of luck, this should all go splendidly.
 
 Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'realtime-groups-6.13_2024-11-05' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djwong/xfs-linux into staging-merge

xfs: shard the realtime section [v5.5 06/10]

Right now, the realtime section uses a single pair of metadata inodes to
store the free space information.  This presents a scalability problem
since every thread trying to allocate or free rt extents have to lock
these files.  Solve this problem by sharding the realtime section into
separate realtime allocation groups.

While we're at it, define a superblock to be stamped into the start of
the rt section.  This enables utilities such as blkid to identify block
devices containing realtime sections, and avoids the situation where
anything written into block 0 of the realtime extent can be
misinterpreted as file data.

The best advantage for rtgroups will become evident later when we get to
adding rmap and reflink to the realtime volume, since the geometry
constraints are the same for rt groups and AGs.  Hence we can reuse all
that code directly.

This is a very large patchset, but it catches us up with 20 years of
technical debt that have accumulated.

With a bit of luck, this should all go splendidly.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
2024-11-12 11:00:42 +01:00
arch A trivial compile test fix for x86 2024-11-03 08:26:00 -10:00
block block-6.12-20241101 2024-11-01 13:41:55 -10:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto This push fixes the following issues: 2024-10-16 08:42:54 -07:00
Documentation phy fixes for 6.12 2024-11-03 10:19:34 -10:00
drivers phy fixes for 6.12 2024-11-03 10:19:34 -10:00
fs xfs: shard the realtime section [v5.5 06/10] 2024-11-12 11:00:42 +01:00
include iomap: add a merge boundary flag 2024-11-05 13:38:39 -08:00
init cfi: fix conditions for HAVE_CFI_ICALL_NORMALIZE_INTEGERS 2024-10-13 22:23:13 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/rw: fix missing NOWAIT check for O_DIRECT start write 2024-10-31 08:21:02 -06:00
ipc struct fd layout change (and conversion to accessor helpers) 2024-09-23 09:35:36 -07:00
kernel A single fix for posix CPU timers 2024-11-03 08:22:21 -10:00
lib arm64 fixes for -rc6 2024-11-01 07:54:11 -10:00
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mm 17 hotfixes. 9 are cc:stable. 13 are MM and 4 are non-MM. 2024-11-03 10:25:05 -10:00
net nfsd-6.12 fixes: 2024-11-02 09:27:11 -10:00
rust Driver core fix for 6.12-rc3 2024-10-13 09:10:52 -07:00
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scripts Kbuild fixes for v6.12 (2nd) 2024-11-03 08:29:02 -10:00
security ipe: fallback to platform keyring also if key in trusted keyring is rejected 2024-10-18 12:14:53 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix headset mic on TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen6 mb1 2024-10-30 14:46:59 +01:00
tools 17 hotfixes. 9 are cc:stable. 13 are MM and 4 are non-MM. 2024-11-03 10:25:05 -10:00
usr initramfs: shorten cmd_initfs in usr/Makefile 2024-07-16 01:07:52 +09:00
virt ARM64: 2024-10-21 11:22:04 -07:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS Char/Misc/IIO driver fixes for 6.12-rc6 2024-11-03 08:45:03 -10:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.