dm bufio: prefetch

This patch introduces a new function dm_bufio_prefetch. It prefetches
the specified range of blocks into dm-bufio cache without waiting
for i/o completion.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.h b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.h
index 5c4c3a04e381..b142946a9e32 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.h
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.h
@@ -63,6 +63,14 @@ void *dm_bufio_new(struct dm_bufio_client *c, sector_t block,
                    struct dm_buffer **bp);
 
 /*
+ * Prefetch the specified blocks to the cache.
+ * The function starts to read the blocks and returns without waiting for
+ * I/O to finish.
+ */
+void dm_bufio_prefetch(struct dm_bufio_client *c,
+                       sector_t block, unsigned n_blocks);
+
+/*
  * Release a reference obtained with dm_bufio_{read,get,new}. The data
  * pointer and dm_buffer pointer is no longer valid after this call.
  */