[XFS] Initial pass at going directly-to-bio on the buffered IO path. This

allows us to submit much larger I/Os instead of sending down lots of small
buffer_heads.  To do this we need to have a rather complicated I/O
submission and completion tracking infrastructure.  Part of the latter has
been merged already a long time ago for direct I/O support. Part of the
problem is that we need to track sub-pagesize regions and for that we
still need buffer_heads for the time beeing.  Long-term I hope we can move
to better data strucutures and/or maybe move this to fs/mpage.c instead of
having it in XFS.  Original patch from Nathan Scott with various updates
from David Chinner and Christoph Hellwig.

SGI-PV: 947118
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:203822a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.h b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.h
index 4720758a9ade..55339dd5a30d 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.h
@@ -23,14 +23,24 @@ extern mempool_t *xfs_ioend_pool;
 
 typedef void (*xfs_ioend_func_t)(void *);
 
+/*
+ * xfs_ioend struct manages large extent writes for XFS.
+ * It can manage several multi-page bio's at once.
+ */
 typedef struct xfs_ioend {
+        struct xfs_ioend        *io_list;       /* next ioend in chain */
+        unsigned int            io_type;        /* delalloc / unwritten */
         unsigned int            io_uptodate;    /* I/O status register */
         atomic_t                io_remaining;   /* hold count */
         struct vnode            *io_vnode;      /* file being written to */
         struct buffer_head      *io_buffer_head;/* buffer linked list head */
+        struct buffer_head      *io_buffer_tail;/* buffer linked list tail */
         size_t                  io_size;        /* size of the extent */
         xfs_off_t               io_offset;      /* offset in the file */
         struct work_struct      io_work;        /* xfsdatad work queue */
 } xfs_ioend_t;
 
+extern struct address_space_operations linvfs_aops;
+extern int linvfs_get_block(struct inode *, sector_t, struct buffer_head *, int);
+
 #endif /* __XFS_IOPS_H__ */