[dm-devel] [PATCH 0/4] dm: reduce memory overhead of DM devices

[Mike Snitzer]

On Fri, Oct 03 2014 at  4:57pm -0400,
Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk> wrote:

> >Jens, I can easily yield this patchset to you if you care.  Or I can
> >backfill your Acked-by in the above 2 block commits (I obviously won't
> >just send block changes upstream without your OK!).
> 
> My only worry is the switch to fast clones, apart from that, it's
> pretty basic. But we are pretty close to the 3.18 merge window, and
> as such, I'd prefer to let it simmer for a release.

Fine with me.  fast clones is all we need (thanks to Kent's immutable
biovec work), but waiting until 3.19 will give us plenty of time to
verify all is well.