fs/block_dev.c: add bdev_read_page() and bdev_write_page()
authorMatthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:46 +0000 (16:07 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:54:02 +0000 (16:54 -0700)
commit47a191fd38ebddb1bd1510ec2bc1085c578c8868
tree5c65289e7195f4ecd445b2b55e8d44cfa7e7ea00
parent57d998456ae8680ed446aa1993f45f4d8a9a5973
fs/block_dev.c: add bdev_read_page() and bdev_write_page()

A block device driver may choose to provide a rw_page operation.  These
will be called when the filesystem is attempting to do page sized I/O to
page cache pages (ie not for direct I/O).  This does preclude I/Os that
are larger than page size, so this may only be a performance gain for
some devices.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Tested-by: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/block_dev.c
fs/mpage.c
include/linux/blkdev.h