dm integrity: implement fair range locks
dm-integrity locks a range of sectors to prevent concurrent I/O or journal writeback. These locks were not fair - so that many small overlapping I/Os could starve a large I/O indefinitely. Fix this by making the range locks fair. The ranges that are waiting are added to the list "wait_list". If a new I/O overlaps some of the waiting I/Os, it is not dispatched, but it is also added to that wait list. Entries on the wait list are processed in first-in-first-out order, so that an I/O can't starve indefinitely. Signed-off-by: NMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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