Use sys_clone under Linux to share I/O contexts between dump processes.

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-$Id: CHANGES,v 1.299 2009/06/18 09:42:11 stelian Exp $
+$Id: CHANGES,v 1.300 2009/06/18 09:50:54 stelian Exp $
 
 Changes between versions 0.4b41 and 0.4b42 (released xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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        that -P and -A were both allowed in the same invocation (RedHat
        bug #490627). Thanks to Adam Tkac <atkac@redhat.com> for the patch.
 
+17.    Use sys_clone under Linux to share I/O contexts between dump
+       processes, thus drastically increasing the performance of dump
+       under CFQ (which is the default I/O scheduler used in a number of
+       distributions). Thanks to Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> for the
+       patch.
+
 Changes between versions 0.4b40 and 0.4b41 (released January 2, 2006)
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