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drbd-8.4.8-1.tar.gz
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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: Lars Ellenberg
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