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CIFS: Add asynchronous write support through kernel AIO
authorPavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:52:31 +0000 (11:52 -0700)
committerSteve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Tue, 2 May 2017 19:57:34 +0000 (14:57 -0500)
commitc610c4b619e53494d9c512fa0333e28c732e976f
tree465a053bc44c41443b0fc34ab8fb5a9c5ef24612
parent6685c5e2d1acae8e7d3b63b1a205f58420ce7150
CIFS: Add asynchronous write support through kernel AIO

This patch adds support to process write 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 writing 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>
fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
fs/cifs/file.c