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    ore: Only IO one group at a time (API change) · b916c5cd
    Boaz Harrosh authored
    
    
    Usually a single IO is confined to one group of devices
    (group_width) and at the boundary of a raid group it can
    spill into a second group. Current code would allocate a
    full device_table size array at each io_state so it can
    comply to requests that span two groups. Needless to say
    that is very wasteful, specially when device_table count
    can get very large (hundreds even thousands), while a
    group_width is usually 8 or 10.
    
    * Change ore API to trim on IO that spans two raid groups.
      The user passes offset+length to ore_get_rw_state, the
      ore might trim on that length if spanning a group boundary.
      The user must check ios->length or ios->nrpages to see
      how much IO will be preformed. It is the responsibility
      of the user to re-issue the reminder of the IO.
    
    * Modify exofs To copy spilled pages on to the next IO.
      This means one last kick is needed after all coalescing
      of pages is done.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
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