This patch introduces a new function dm_bufio_prefetch. It prefetches
the specified range of blocks into dm-bufio cache without waiting
for i/o completion.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

As 'make versioncheck' points out, drivers/md/dm-bufio.c has no need to include
linux/version.h, so this patch removes the unneeded include.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

since it uses the module facilities.

Reported-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The dm-bufio interface allows you to do cached I/O on devices,
holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing delayed writes.

We don't use buffer cache or page cache already present in the kernel, because:
* we need to handle block sizes larger than a page
* we can't allocate memory to perform reads or we'd have deadlocks

Currently, when a cache is required, we limit its size to a fraction of
available memory.  Usage can be viewed and changed in
/sys/module/dm_bufio/parameters/ .

The first user is thin provisioning, but more dm users are planned.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>