block: fast-path for small and simple direct I/O requests
This patch adds a small and simple fast patch for small direct I/O
requests on block devices that don't use AIO. Between the neat
bio_iov_iter_get_pages helper that avoids allocating a page array
for get_user_pages and the on-stack bio and biovec this avoid memory
allocations and atomic operations entirely in the direct I/O code
(lower levels might still do memory allocations and will usually
have at least some atomic operations, though).
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Tested-By: Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com>
Reviewed-By: Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com>
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