F2FS With Now Handle Multi-Device Flushes In Parallel With Linux 7.3

Linux 7.3 brings F2FS updates including parallel multi-device flushes instead of sequential ones, contributed by Samsung engineer Yonggil Song. This means the flush window is now bound to the slowest device rather than the sum of all device flush times. Other changes include reduced memory overhead for inode management, dynamic reserve/release support for device aliasing, and asynchronous f2fs_write_end_io() execution, which on an Arm Cortex-A520 device cut processing time from 10ms to 150 microseconds. Numerous bug fixes are also included, detailed in the kernel mailing list pull request.

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