CIFS: Add asynchronous read support through kernel AIO
This patch adds support to process read calls passed by io_submit() asynchronously. It based on the previously introduced async context that allows to process i/o responses in a separate thread and return the caller immediately for asynchronous calls. This improves reading performance of single threaded applications with increasing of i/o queue depth size. Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
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