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This patch adds the support for blocksize < pagesize for dioread_nolock feature. Since in case of blocksize < pagesize, we can have multiple small buffers of page as unwritten extents, we need to maintain a vector of these unwritten extents which needs the conversion after the IO is complete. Thus, we maintain a list of tuple <offset, size> pair (io_end_vec) for this & traverse this list to do the unwritten to written conversion. Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191016073711.4141-5-riteshh@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Linux kernel
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