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ext2fs: add readahead method to improve scanning
authorAndreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:58:53 +0000 (12:58 -0600)
committerAndreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Sat, 1 Dec 2012 19:47:20 +0000 (12:47 -0700)
commitd0e1ab97f872480f37b49e1a4659af3c85c6d940
tree5cab247249e212945dbd7db6699ddfc8ef445d46
parent7adfda932bb15c222b74f3034bb9a6d92fe1ac4b
ext2fs: add readahead method to improve scanning

Add a readahead method for prefetching ranges of disk blocks.
This is useful for inode table scanning, and other large
contiguous ranges of blocks, and may also prove useful for
random block prefetch, since it will allow reordering of the
IO without waiting synchronously for the reads to complete.

It is currently using the posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED)
interface, as this proved most efficient during our testing

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
lib/ext2fs/ext2_io.h
lib/ext2fs/unix_io.c