squashfs: cache partial compressed blocks
Before commit 93e72b3c ("squashfs: migrate from ll_rw_block usage to BIO"), compressed blocks read by squashfs were cached in the page cache, but that is not the case after that commit. That has lead to squashfs having to re-read a lot of sectors from disk/flash. For example, the first sectors of every metadata block need to be read twice from the disk. Once partially to read the length, and a second time to read the block itself. Also, in linear reads of large files, the last sectors of one data block are re-read from disk when reading the next data block, since the compressed blocks are of variable sizes and not aligned to device blocks. This extra I/O results in a degrade in read performance of, for example, ~16% in one scenario on my ARM platform using squashfs with dm-verity and NAND. Since the decompressed data is cached in the page cache or squashfs' internal metadata and fragment caches, caching _all_ compressed pages would lead to a lot of...
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