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Commit bd80d8a8 authored by David Howells's avatar David Howells
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afs: Use ITER_XARRAY for writing



Use a single ITER_XARRAY iterator to describe the portion of a file to be
transmitted to the server rather than generating a series of small
ITER_BVEC iterators on the fly.  This will make it easier to implement AIO
in afs.

In theory we could maybe use one giant ITER_BVEC, but that means
potentially allocating a huge array of bio_vec structs (max 256 per page)
when in fact the pagecache already has a structure listing all the relevant
pages (radix_tree/xarray) that can be walked over.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-By: default avatarMarc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/153685395197.14766.16289516750731233933.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/158861251312.340223.17924900795425422532.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/159465828607.1377938.6903132788463419368.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/160588535018.3465195.14509994354240338307.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161118152415.1232039.6452879415814850025.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161161048194.2537118.13763612220937637316.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161340411602.1303470.4661108879482218408.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161539555629.286939.5241869986617154517.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161653811456.2770958.7017388543246759245.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v5
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161789095005.6155.6789055030327407928.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v6
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