The general trend is to remove it from all kernel interfaces and
this is a start. In case the calling lwp is desired, curlwp should
be used.
quick consensus on tech-kern
before copying them out, rather just use a single one. Further, follow
the example of tmpfs and others by simply allocating on the stack.
This should have the side-effect of silencing false Coverity reports like
CID 4559 and 4554.
need to understand the locking around that field. Instead of setting
B_ERROR, set b_error instead. b_error is 'owned' by whoever completes
the I/O request.
1) Comply with the way buffercache(9) is intended to be used. Now we
read in single blocks of EFS_BB_SIZE, never taking in variable
length extents with a single bread() call.
2) Handle symlinks with more than one extent. There's no reason for
this to ever happen, but it's handled now.
3) Finally, add a hint to our iteration initialiser so we can start
from the desired offset, rather than naively looping through from
the beginning each time. Since we can binary search the correct
location quickly, this improves large sequential reads by about
40% with 128MB files. Improvement should increase with file size.
When reading a file, we would erroneously iterate to the next extent
before having filled the entire uio request. This lead to unnecessary
extent iteration and excessive calls to efs_read.
Sequential read performance has doubled in the uncached case and
quadrupled when data is buffered.
