dm snapshot: implement merge
dm snapshot: implement merge

Implement merge method for the snapshot origin to improve read
performance.

Without merge method, dm asks the upper layers to submit smallest possible
bios --- one page. Submitting such small bios impacts performance negatively
when reading or writing the origin device.

Without this patch, CPU consumption when reading the origin on lvm on md-raid0
was 6 to 12%, with this patch, it drops to 1 to 4%.

Note: in my testing, it actually degraded performance in some settings, I
traced it to Maxtor disks having problems with > 512-sector requests.
Reducing the number of sectors to /sys/block/sd*/queue/max_sectors_kb to
256 fixed the read performance. I think we don't have to care about weird
disks that actually degrade performance because of large requests being
sent to them.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <52f8f9962b7f38d8269c63c0859d68147c8d10f0@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <620085386a2c64ec2f1d43bef997c15003f13da2@redhat.com>

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