ext2fs: add readahead method to improve scanning
Add a readahead method for prefetching ranges of disk blocks. This is
useful for inode table scanning, and other large contiguous ranges of
blocks, and may also prove useful for random block prefetch, since it
will allow reordering of the IO without waiting synchronously for the
reads to complete.
It is currently using the posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED)
interface, as this proved most efficient during our testing.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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