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Squashfs: replace buffer_head with BIO
The 'll_rw_block' has been deprecated and BIO is now the basic container for block I/O within the kernel. Switching to BIO offers 2 advantages: 1/ It removes synchronous wait for the up-to-date buffers: SquashFS now deals with decompressions/copies asynchronously. Implementing an asynchronous mechanism to read data is needed to efficiently implement .readpages(). 2/ Prior to this patch, merging the read requests entirely depends on the IO scheduler. SquashFS has more information than the IO scheduler about what could be merged. Moreover, merging the reads at the FS level means that we rely less on the IO scheduler. Signed-off-by: Adrien Schildknecht <[email protected]> Change-Id: I775d2e11f017476e1899518ab52d9d0a8a0bce28
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