On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 11:20:12PM -0700, Tahsin Erdogan wrote:
> ext4_xattr_inode_read() currently reads each block sequentially while
> waiting for io operation to complete before moving on to the next
> block. This prevents request merging in block layer.
>
> Add a ext4_bread_batch() function t
> It surprises me that ext4/VFS doesn't already have a helper routine to do
> this.
> It looks like ext4_find_entry() is doing something similar for read-ahead of
> directory blocks, so it may be worthwhile to consider moving that code over
> to use ext4_bread_batch(), but it looks like it would n
ext4_xattr_inode_read() currently reads each block sequentially while
waiting for io operation to complete before moving on to the next
block. This prevents request merging in block layer.
Add a ext4_bread_batch() function that starts reads for all blocks
then optionally waits for them to complete
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