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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/mpage.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/mpage.c | 92 |
1 files changed, 46 insertions, 46 deletions
diff --git a/fs/mpage.c b/fs/mpage.c index 3923facf94eb..32c7c8fcfce7 100644 --- a/fs/mpage.c +++ b/fs/mpage.c @@ -160,52 +160,6 @@ map_buffer_to_page(struct page *page, struct buffer_head *bh, int page_block) } while (page_bh != head); } -/** - * mpage_readpages - populate an address space with some pages, and - * start reads against them. - * - * @mapping: the address_space - * @pages: The address of a list_head which contains the target pages. These - * pages have their ->index populated and are otherwise uninitialised. - * - * The page at @pages->prev has the lowest file offset, and reads should be - * issued in @pages->prev to @pages->next order. - * - * @nr_pages: The number of pages at *@pages - * @get_block: The filesystem's block mapper function. - * - * This function walks the pages and the blocks within each page, building and - * emitting large BIOs. - * - * If anything unusual happens, such as: - * - * - encountering a page which has buffers - * - encountering a page which has a non-hole after a hole - * - encountering a page with non-contiguous blocks - * - * then this code just gives up and calls the buffer_head-based read function. - * It does handle a page which has holes at the end - that is a common case: - * the end-of-file on blocksize < PAGE_CACHE_SIZE setups. - * - * BH_Boundary explanation: - * - * There is a problem. The mpage read code assembles several pages, gets all - * their disk mappings, and then submits them all. That's fine, but obtaining - * the disk mappings may require I/O. Reads of indirect blocks, for example. - * - * So an mpage read of the first 16 blocks of an ext2 file will cause I/O to be - * submitted in the following order: - * 12 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16 - * because the indirect block has to be read to get the mappings of blocks - * 13,14,15,16. Obviously, this impacts performance. - * - * So what we do it to allow the filesystem's get_block() function to set - * BH_Boundary when it maps block 11. BH_Boundary says: mapping of the block - * after this one will require I/O against a block which is probably close to - * this one. So you should push what I/O you have currently accumulated. - * - * This all causes the disk requests to be issued in the correct order. - */ static struct bio * do_mpage_readpage(struct bio *bio, struct page *page, unsigned nr_pages, sector_t *last_block_in_bio, get_block_t get_block) @@ -320,6 +274,52 @@ confused: goto out; } +/** + * mpage_readpages - populate an address space with some pages, and + * start reads against them. + * + * @mapping: the address_space + * @pages: The address of a list_head which contains the target pages. These + * pages have their ->index populated and are otherwise uninitialised. + * + * The page at @pages->prev has the lowest file offset, and reads should be + * issued in @pages->prev to @pages->next order. + * + * @nr_pages: The number of pages at *@pages + * @get_block: The filesystem's block mapper function. + * + * This function walks the pages and the blocks within each page, building and + * emitting large BIOs. + * + * If anything unusual happens, such as: + * + * - encountering a page which has buffers + * - encountering a page which has a non-hole after a hole + * - encountering a page with non-contiguous blocks + * + * then this code just gives up and calls the buffer_head-based read function. + * It does handle a page which has holes at the end - that is a common case: + * the end-of-file on blocksize < PAGE_CACHE_SIZE setups. + * + * BH_Boundary explanation: + * + * There is a problem. The mpage read code assembles several pages, gets all + * their disk mappings, and then submits them all. That's fine, but obtaining + * the disk mappings may require I/O. Reads of indirect blocks, for example. + * + * So an mpage read of the first 16 blocks of an ext2 file will cause I/O to be + * submitted in the following order: + * 12 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16 + * because the indirect block has to be read to get the mappings of blocks + * 13,14,15,16. Obviously, this impacts performance. + * + * So what we do it to allow the filesystem's get_block() function to set + * BH_Boundary when it maps block 11. BH_Boundary says: mapping of the block + * after this one will require I/O against a block which is probably close to + * this one. So you should push what I/O you have currently accumulated. + * + * This all causes the disk requests to be issued in the correct order. + */ int mpage_readpages(struct address_space *mapping, struct list_head *pages, unsigned nr_pages, get_block_t get_block) |