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    direct-io: Implement generic deferred AIO completions · 7b7a8665
    Christoph Hellwig authored
    Add support to the core direct-io code to defer AIO completions to user
    context using a workqueue.  This replaces opencoded and less efficient
    code in XFS and ext4 (we save a memory allocation for each direct IO)
    and will be needed to properly support O_(D)SYNC for AIO.
    
    The communication between the filesystem and the direct I/O code requires
    a new buffer head flag, which is a bit ugly but not avoidable until the
    direct I/O code stops abusing the buffer_head structure for communicating
    with the filesystems.
    
    Currently this creates a per-superblock unbound workqueue for these
    completions, which is taken from an earlier patch by Jan Kara.  I'm
    not really convinced about this use and would prefer a "normal" global
    workqueue with a high concurrency limit, but this needs further discussion.
    
    JK: Fixed ext4 part, dynamic allocation of the workqueue.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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