From 9f203507ed277ee86e3f76a15e09db1c92e40b94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:46:17 -0400 Subject: ext4: mark all metadata I/O with REQ_META As Dave Chinner pointed out at the 2013 LSF/MM workshop, it's important that metadata I/O requests are marked as such to avoid priority inversions caused by I/O bandwidth throttling. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- fs/ext4/mmp.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/ext4/mmp.c') diff --git a/fs/ext4/mmp.c b/fs/ext4/mmp.c index b3b1f7d9944..214461e42a0 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mmp.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mmp.c @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static int write_mmp_block(struct super_block *sb, struct buffer_head *bh) lock_buffer(bh); bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_write_sync; get_bh(bh); - submit_bh(WRITE_SYNC, bh); + submit_bh(WRITE_SYNC | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO, bh); wait_on_buffer(bh); sb_end_write(sb); if (unlikely(!buffer_uptodate(bh))) @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ static int read_mmp_block(struct super_block *sb, struct buffer_head **bh, get_bh(*bh); lock_buffer(*bh); (*bh)->b_end_io = end_buffer_read_sync; - submit_bh(READ_SYNC, *bh); + submit_bh(READ_SYNC | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO, *bh); wait_on_buffer(*bh); if (!buffer_uptodate(*bh)) { brelse(*bh); -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258