From 9699d4f91d9bd2f70dcc37afe3c9f18145ab2dba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tahsin Erdogan Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 00:07:01 -0400 Subject: ext4: make xattr inode reads faster 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. A similar logic is used in ext4_find_entry(), so update that code to use the new function. Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o --- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/ext4/ext4.h') diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h index d50229e92c55..a2bb7d2870e4 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h @@ -2461,6 +2461,8 @@ extern void ext4_process_freed_data(struct super_block *sb, tid_t commit_tid); int ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink(struct inode *inode); struct buffer_head *ext4_getblk(handle_t *, struct inode *, ext4_lblk_t, int); struct buffer_head *ext4_bread(handle_t *, struct inode *, ext4_lblk_t, int); +int ext4_bread_batch(struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t block, int bh_count, + bool wait, struct buffer_head **bhs); int ext4_get_block_unwritten(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock, struct buffer_head *bh_result, int create); int ext4_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock, -- cgit v1.2.3