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authorPavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>2017-04-25 21:52:30 +0300
committerSteve French <smfrench@gmail.com>2017-05-02 22:57:34 +0300
commit6685c5e2d1acae8e7d3b63b1a205f58420ce7150 (patch)
tree3ee3d0e7c5e4c0fe3364b323d3dcc124df5f6eaa /fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
parentccf7f4088af2dd6733bfcbc40b488e2484345ae5 (diff)
downloadlinux-6685c5e2d1acae8e7d3b63b1a205f58420ce7150.tar.xz
CIFS: Add asynchronous read support through kernel AIO
This patch adds support to process read calls passed by io_submit() asynchronously. It based on the previously introduced async context that allows to process i/o responses in a separate thread and return the caller immediately for asynchronous calls. This improves reading performance of single threaded applications with increasing of i/o queue depth size. Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
index bb412261d601..9438c7cd8dc7 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
@@ -1140,6 +1140,7 @@ struct cifs_readdata {
struct completion done;
struct cifsFileInfo *cfile;
struct address_space *mapping;
+ struct cifs_aio_ctx *ctx;
__u64 offset;
unsigned int bytes;
unsigned int got_bytes;