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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