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Commit 7869a4a6 authored by Theodore Ts'o's avatar Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: add support for extent pre-caching



Add a new fiemap flag which forces the all of the extents in an inode
to be cached in the extent_status tree.  This is critically important
when using AIO to a preallocated file, since if we need to read in
blocks from the extent tree, the io_submit(2) system call becomes
synchronous, and the AIO is no longer "A", which is bad.

In addition, for most files which have an external leaf tree block,
the cost of caching the information in the extent status tree will be
less than caching the entire 4k block in the buffer cache.  So it is
generally a win to keep the extent information cached.

Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
parent 107a7bd3
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