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 faster depends on the speed of the
     devices, so the effective minimum should scale with device speed to
     some extent"

* tag 'md/4.1' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (58 commits)
  md/raid5: don't do chunk aligned read on degraded array.
  md/raid5: allow the stripe_cache to grow and shrink.
  md/raid5: change ->inactive_blocked to a bit-flag.
  md/raid5: move max_nr_stripes management into grow_one_stripe and drop_one_stripe
  md/raid5: pass gfp_t arg to grow_one_stripe()
  md/raid5: introduce configuration option rmw_level
  md/raid5: activate raid6 rmw feature
  md/raid6 algorithms: xor_syndrome() for SSE2
  md/raid6 algorithms: xor_syndrome() for generic int
  md/raid6 algorithms: improve test program
  md/raid6 algorithms: delta syndrome functions
  raid5: handle expansion/resync case with stripe batching
  raid5: handle io error of batch list
  RAID5: batch adjacent full stripe write
  raid5: track overwrite disk count
  raid5: add a new flag to track if a stripe can be batched
  raid5: use flex_array for scribble data
  md raid0: access mddev->queue (request queue member) conditionally because it is not set when accessed from dm-raid
  md: allow resync to go faster when there is competing IO.
  md: remove 'go_faster' option from ->sync_request()
  ...

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/Kconfig b/drivers/md/Kconfig
index 6ddc983417d5..edcf4ab66e00 100644
--- a/drivers/md/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig
@@ -175,6 +175,22 @@ config MD_FAULTY
 
 	  In unsure, say N.
 
+
+config MD_CLUSTER
+	tristate "Cluster Support for MD (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+	depends on BLK_DEV_MD
+	depends on DLM
+	default n
+	---help---
+	Clustering support for MD devices. This enables locking and
+	synchronization across multiple systems on the cluster, so all
+	nodes in the cluster can access the MD devices simultaneously.
+
+	This brings the redundancy (and uptime) of RAID levels across the
+	nodes of the cluster.
+
+	If unsure, say N.
+
 source "drivers/md/bcache/Kconfig"
 
 config BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN