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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>2011-08-23 14:50:29 +0200
committerJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>2011-08-23 14:50:29 +0200
commit65299a3b788bd274bed92f9fa3232082c9f3ea70 (patch)
tree191c0afe31c15ac4c1bab96e0a07fddb097d0de8 /include
parent5dc06c5a70b79a323152bec7e55783e705767e63 (diff)
block: separate priority boosting from REQ_META
Add a new REQ_PRIO to let requests preempt others in the cfq I/O schedule, and lave REQ_META purely for marking requests as metadata in blktrace. All existing callers of REQ_META except for XFS are updated to also set REQ_PRIO for now. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/blk_types.h6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h
index 32f0076e844..71fc53bb8f1 100644
--- a/include/linux/blk_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ enum rq_flag_bits {
__REQ_SYNC, /* request is sync (sync write or read) */
__REQ_META, /* metadata io request */
+ __REQ_PRIO, /* boost priority in cfq */
__REQ_DISCARD, /* request to discard sectors */
__REQ_SECURE, /* secure discard (used with __REQ_DISCARD) */
@@ -161,14 +162,15 @@ enum rq_flag_bits {
#define REQ_FAILFAST_DRIVER (1 << __REQ_FAILFAST_DRIVER)
#define REQ_SYNC (1 << __REQ_SYNC)
#define REQ_META (1 << __REQ_META)
+#define REQ_PRIO (1 << __REQ_PRIO)
#define REQ_DISCARD (1 << __REQ_DISCARD)
#define REQ_NOIDLE (1 << __REQ_NOIDLE)
#define REQ_FAILFAST_MASK \
(REQ_FAILFAST_DEV | REQ_FAILFAST_TRANSPORT | REQ_FAILFAST_DRIVER)
#define REQ_COMMON_MASK \
- (REQ_WRITE | REQ_FAILFAST_MASK | REQ_SYNC | REQ_META | REQ_DISCARD | \
- REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA | REQ_SECURE)
+ (REQ_WRITE | REQ_FAILFAST_MASK | REQ_SYNC | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO | \
+ REQ_DISCARD | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA | REQ_SECURE)
#define REQ_CLONE_MASK REQ_COMMON_MASK
#define REQ_RAHEAD (1 << __REQ_RAHEAD)