[PATCH] Add readpages support for block devices

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>]

From: Shane Michael Matthews <shane.matthews@intel.com>

Using mpage_readpages instead of multiple calls to blkdev_readpage reduces
the CPU utilisation by 35% when using dd to clone a drive.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shane Michael Matthews <shane.matthews@intel.com>
---
 fs/block_dev.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 4230252..55cf932 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -318,6 +318,12 @@ static int blkdev_readpage(struct file * file, struct page * page)
 	return block_read_full_page(page, blkdev_get_block);
 }
 
+static int blkdev_readpages(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
+			struct list_head *pages, unsigned nr_pages)
+{
+	return mpage_readpages(mapping, pages, nr_pages, blkdev_get_block);
+}
+
 static int blkdev_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
 			loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags,
 			struct page **pagep, void **fsdata)
@@ -1634,6 +1640,7 @@ static int blkdev_releasepage(struct page *page, gfp_t wait)
 
 static const struct address_space_operations def_blk_aops = {
 	.readpage	= blkdev_readpage,
+	.readpages	= blkdev_readpages,
 	.writepage	= blkdev_writepage,
 	.sync_page	= block_sync_page,
 	.write_begin	= blkdev_write_begin,
-- 
1.7.2.3