+/** direct write pages */
+struct ll_dio_pages {
+ /** page array to be written. we don't support
+ * partial pages except the last one. */
+ struct page **ldp_pages;
+ /* offset of each page */
+ loff_t *ldp_offsets;
+ /** if ldp_offsets is NULL, it means a sequential
+ * pages to be written, then this is the file offset
+ * of the * first page. */
+ loff_t ldp_start_offset;
+ /** how many bytes are to be written. */
+ size_t ldp_size;
+ /** # of pages in the array. */
+ int ldp_nr;
+};
+
+extern ssize_t ll_direct_rw_pages(const struct lu_env *env, struct cl_io *io,
+ int rw, struct inode *inode,
+ struct ll_dio_pages *pv);
+