On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 11:20:12PM -0700, Tahsin Erdogan wrote: > ext4_xattr_inode_read() currently reads each block sequentially while > waiting for io operation to complete before moving on to the next > block. This prevents request merging in block layer. > > Add a ext4_bread_batch() function that starts reads for all blocks > then optionally waits for them to complete. A similar logic is used > in ext4_find_entry(), so update that code to use the new function. > > Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, applied. - Ted
