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ext4: use bio layer instead of buffer layer in mpage_da_submit_io

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Call the block I/O layer directly instad of going through the buffer
layer.  This should give us much better performance and scalability,
as well as lowering our CPU utilization when doing buffered writeback.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Theodore Ts'o 2010-10-27 21:30:10 -04:00
commit bd2d0210cf
6 changed files with 489 additions and 109 deletions
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fs/ext4/extents.c
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@ -3202,7 +3202,7 @@ ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
* completed
*/
if (io)
io->flag = EXT4_IO_UNWRITTEN;
io->flag = EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN;
else
ext4_set_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN);
if (ext4_should_dioread_nolock(inode))
@ -3494,7 +3494,7 @@ int ext4_ext_map_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
*/
if ((flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_PRE_IO)) {
if (io)
io->flag = EXT4_IO_UNWRITTEN;
io->flag = EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN;
else
ext4_set_inode_state(inode,
EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN);