[DRBD-user] drbd-8.4.8-1.tar.gz

Digimer lists at alteeve.ca
Mon Jul 18 18:20:51 CEST 2016

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


\o/

On 18/07/16 08:57 AM, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> 
> No one complained about the release candidate,
> so without further changes, this is the release.
> 
> Git:
>   http://git.linbit.com/drbd-8.4.git/shortlog/refs/tags/drbd-8.4.8-1
> Tarball:
>   http://www.drbd.org/download/drbd/8.4/drbd-8.4.8-1.tar.gz
> 
>> Changes since 8.4.7:
>>
>>  * compat fixes for linux kernels up to 4.7
>>  * fix potential deadlock with many parallel request on kernels >= 4.3
>>  * fix potential data divergence after write error on secondary
>>    with non-synchronous replication
>>  * performance improvement for kernel >= 2.6.39
>>    use request plugging again to help backends with merging batches
>>
>> Already in 8.4.7-2:
>>
>>  * compat: don't trigger BUG_ON on flush in kernel < 2.6.24 (e.g. RHEL 5)
>>  * al_write_transaction: skip re-scanning of bitmap page pointer array.
>>    Improves performance of random writes on "huge" volumes
>>    by burning less CPU and avoiding CPU cache pressure.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>     Lars
> 


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