As of now, we use the pid method to read striped mirrored data, which
means process id determines the stripe id to read. This type of routing
typically helps in a system with many small independent processes tying
to read random data. On the other hand, the pid based read IO policy is
inefficient because if there is a single process trying to read a large
file, the overall disk bandwidth remains underutilized.
So this patch introduces a read policy framework so that we could add
more read policies, such as IO routing based on the device's wait-queue
or manual when we have a read-preferred device or a policy based on the
target storage caching.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>