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Commit 682e8f85 authored by Adrien Schildknecht's avatar Adrien Schildknecht Committed by Daniel Rosenberg
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Squashfs: replace buffer_head with BIO



The 'll_rw_block' has been deprecated and BIO is now the basic container
for block I/O within the kernel.

Switching to BIO offers 2 advantages:
  1/ It removes synchronous wait for the up-to-date buffers: SquashFS
     now deals with decompressions/copies asynchronously.
     Implementing an asynchronous mechanism to read data is needed to
     efficiently implement .readpages().
  2/ Prior to this patch, merging the read requests entirely depends on
     the IO scheduler. SquashFS has more information than the IO
     scheduler about what could be merged. Moreover, merging the reads
     at the FS level means that we rely less on the IO scheduler.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrien Schildknecht <adriens@google.com>
Change-Id: I98ac1d0e7a829b04a66c47ad6b7389ffacc7ab68
parent 3a02aa48
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