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Patch series "remove ->rw_page". This series removes the ->rw_page block_device_operation, which is an old and clumsy attempt at a simple read/write fast path for the block layer. It isn't actually used by the fastest block layer operations that we support (polled I/O through io_uring), but only used by the mpage buffered I/O helpers which are some of the slowest I/O we have and do not make any difference there at all, and zram which is a block device abused to duplicate the zram functionality. Given that zram is heavily used we need to make sure there is a good replacement for synchronous I/O, so this series adds a new flag for drivers that complete I/O synchronously and uses that flag to use on-stack bios and synchronous submission for them in the swap code. This patch (of 7): These are micro-optimizations for synchronous I/O, which do not matter compared to all the other inefficiencies in the legacy buffer_head based mpage code. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230125133436.447864-1-hch@lst.de Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230125133436.447864-2-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.