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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@home.osdl.org>2003-07-03 04:54:42 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@home.osdl.org>2003-07-03 04:54:42 -0700
commit4b22645477b933f5cf2a972beebef367b628cdc2 (patch)
tree8854fbfa4ab414ef5455a2d6c1d6f1494b07efc5 /include/linux/buffer_head.h
parentd23caa21ece9e3f2d0270047b0b7f0b6887e51fb (diff)
Add an asynchronous buffer read-ahead facility. Nobody
uses it for now, but I needed it for some tuning tests, and it is potentially useful for others.
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/buffer_head.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/buffer_head.h7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index 22d3ac8efc6b..1f468b0491ed 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ struct buffer_head *__find_get_block(struct block_device *, sector_t, int);
struct buffer_head * __getblk(struct block_device *, sector_t, int);
void __brelse(struct buffer_head *);
void __bforget(struct buffer_head *);
+void __breadahead(struct block_device *, sector_t block, int size);
struct buffer_head *__bread(struct block_device *, sector_t block, int size);
struct buffer_head *alloc_buffer_head(int gfp_flags);
void free_buffer_head(struct buffer_head * bh);
@@ -241,6 +242,12 @@ sb_bread(struct super_block *sb, sector_t block)
return __bread(sb->s_bdev, block, sb->s_blocksize);
}
+static inline void
+sb_breadahead(struct super_block *sb, sector_t block)
+{
+ __breadahead(sb->s_bdev, block, sb->s_blocksize);
+}
+
static inline struct buffer_head *
sb_getblk(struct super_block *sb, sector_t block)
{