allows us to submit much larger I/Os instead of sending down lots of small
buffer_heads. To do this we need to have a rather complicated I/O
submission and completion tracking infrastructure. Part of the latter has
been merged already a long time ago for direct I/O support. Part of the
problem is that we need to track sub-pagesize regions and for that we
still need buffer_heads for the time beeing. Long-term I hope we can move
to better data strucutures and/or maybe move this to fs/mpage.c instead of
having it in XFS. Original patch from Nathan Scott with various updates
from David Chinner and Christoph Hellwig.
SGI-PV: 947118
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:203822a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Nathan Scott