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| author | Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> | 2016-04-14 09:51:10 -0600 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> | 2016-04-17 20:16:44 -0500 |
| commit | 462ca58af90f301528d7e77eac347146254da90c (patch) | |
| tree | f0a1b1361194b5e0334aae32e2819e6984af394e | |
| parent | c48fcd8ac284d485afaa9bb51934f64b152f59e3 (diff) | |
block: add WRITE_BG
This adds a new request flag, REQ_BG, that callers can use to tell
the block layer that this is background (non-urgent) IO.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/blk_types.h | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 4 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h index 86a38ea1823f..223012451c7a 100644 --- a/include/linux/blk_types.h +++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h @@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ enum rq_flag_bits { __REQ_INTEGRITY, /* I/O includes block integrity payload */ __REQ_FUA, /* forced unit access */ __REQ_FLUSH, /* request for cache flush */ + __REQ_BG, /* background activity */ /* bio only flags */ __REQ_RAHEAD, /* read ahead, can fail anytime */ @@ -208,7 +209,7 @@ enum rq_flag_bits { #define REQ_COMMON_MASK \ (REQ_WRITE | REQ_FAILFAST_MASK | REQ_SYNC | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO | \ REQ_DISCARD | REQ_WRITE_SAME | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA | \ - REQ_SECURE | REQ_INTEGRITY) + REQ_SECURE | REQ_INTEGRITY | REQ_BG) #define REQ_CLONE_MASK REQ_COMMON_MASK #define BIO_NO_ADVANCE_ITER_MASK (REQ_DISCARD|REQ_WRITE_SAME) @@ -235,6 +236,7 @@ enum rq_flag_bits { #define REQ_COPY_USER (1ULL << __REQ_COPY_USER) #define REQ_FLUSH (1ULL << __REQ_FLUSH) #define REQ_FLUSH_SEQ (1ULL << __REQ_FLUSH_SEQ) +#define REQ_BG (1ULL << __REQ_BG) #define REQ_IO_STAT (1ULL << __REQ_IO_STAT) #define REQ_MIXED_MERGE (1ULL << __REQ_MIXED_MERGE) #define REQ_SECURE (1ULL << __REQ_SECURE) diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 70e61b58baaf..bb8f951cc619 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -192,6 +192,9 @@ typedef void (dax_iodone_t)(struct buffer_head *bh_map, int uptodate); * WRITE_FLUSH_FUA Combination of WRITE_FLUSH and FUA. The IO is preceded * by a cache flush and data is guaranteed to be on * non-volatile media on completion. + * WRITE_BG Background write. This is for background activity like + * the periodic flush and background threshold writeback + * * */ #define RW_MASK REQ_WRITE @@ -207,6 +210,7 @@ typedef void (dax_iodone_t)(struct buffer_head *bh_map, int uptodate); #define WRITE_FLUSH (WRITE | REQ_SYNC | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_FLUSH) #define WRITE_FUA (WRITE | REQ_SYNC | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_FUA) #define WRITE_FLUSH_FUA (WRITE | REQ_SYNC | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA) +#define WRITE_BG (WRITE | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_BG) /* * Attribute flags. These should be or-ed together to figure out what |