From 65299a3b788bd274bed92f9fa3232082c9f3ea70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:50:29 +0200 Subject: 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 Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/blk_types.h | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/blk_types.h') diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h index 32f0076e844b..71fc53bb8f1c 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) -- cgit