linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Ceph updates for 4.20-rc1

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=whbb5FZ7O8MgO8w6yY-1ZkhLGOXA8o7Pkcg+pxdZLh8Ww@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:44:04 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     idryomov@...il.com
Cc:     ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Ceph updates for 4.20-rc1

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 10:44 AM Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com> wrote:
>
> - a series that fixes some old memory allocation issues in libceph
>   (myself).  We no longer allocate memory in places where allocation
>   failures cannot be handled and BUG when the allocation fails.
>
> - support for copy_file_range() syscall (Luis Henriques).  If size and
>   alignment conditions are met, it leverages RADOS copy-from operation.
>   Otherwise, a local copy is performed.
>
> - a patch that reduces memory requirement of ceph_sync_read() from the
>   size of the entire read to the size of one object (Zheng Yan).
>
> - fallocate() syscall is now restricted to FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE (Luis
>   Henriques)

Pulled.

                   Linus