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Provide implementation of the netfslib hooks that will be used by netfslib
to ask cifs to set up and perform operations. Of particular note are
(*) cifs_clamp_length() - This is used to negotiate the size of the next
subrequest in a read request, taking into account the credit available
and the rsize. The credits are attached to the subrequest.
(*) cifs_req_issue_read() - This is used to issue a subrequest that has
been set up and clamped.
(*) cifs_prepare_write() - This prepares to fill a subrequest by picking a
channel, reopening the file and requesting credits so that we can set
the maximum size of the subrequest and also sets the maximum number of
segments if we're doing RDMA.
(*) cifs_issue_write() - This releases any unneeded credits and issues an
asynchronous data write for the contiguous slice of file covered by
the subrequest. This should possibly be folded in to all
->async_writev() ops and that called directly.
(*) cifs_begin_writeback() - This gets the cached writable handle through
which we do writeback (this does not affect writethrough, unbuffered
or direct writes).
At this point, cifs is not wired up to actually *use* netfslib; that will
be done in a subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
cc: Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@gmail.com>
cc: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@gmail.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
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