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    netfs: Implement unbuffered/DIO read support · 016dc851
    David Howells authored
    Implement support for unbuffered and DIO reads in the netfs library,
    utilising the existing read helper code to do block splitting and
    individual queuing.  The code also handles extraction of the destination
    buffer from the supplied iterator, allowing async unbuffered reads to take
    place.
    
    The read will be split up according to the rsize setting and, if supplied,
    the ->clamp_length() method.  Note that the next subrequest will be issued
    as soon as issue_op returns, without waiting for previous ones to finish.
    The network filesystem needs to pause or handle queuing them if it doesn't
    want to fire them all at the server simultaneously.
    
    Once all the subrequests have finished, the state will be assessed and the
    amount of data to be indicated as having being obtained will be
    determined.  As the subrequests may finish in any order, if an intermediate
    subrequest is short, any further subrequests may be copied into the buffer
    and then abandoned.
    
    In the future, this will also take care of doing an unbuffered read from
    encrypted content, with the decryption being done by the library.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
    cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
    cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
    cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
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