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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)
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parent5dc06c5a70b79a323152bec7e55783e705767e63 (diff)
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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 'fs/ext3')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext3/inode.c4
-rw-r--r--fs/ext3/namei.c3
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext3/inode.c
index bba7b96e0d9b..12661e1deedd 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c
@@ -1134,7 +1134,7 @@ struct buffer_head *ext3_bread(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
return bh;
if (buffer_uptodate(bh))
return bh;
- ll_rw_block(READ | REQ_META, 1, &bh);
+ ll_rw_block(READ | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO, 1, &bh);
wait_on_buffer(bh);
if (buffer_uptodate(bh))
return bh;
@@ -2807,7 +2807,7 @@ make_io:
trace_ext3_load_inode(inode);
get_bh(bh);
bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_read_sync;
- submit_bh(READ | REQ_META, bh);
+ submit_bh(READ | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO, bh);
wait_on_buffer(bh);
if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
ext3_error(inode->i_sb, "ext3_get_inode_loc",
diff --git a/fs/ext3/namei.c b/fs/ext3/namei.c
index c7d4032aa82a..0629e09f6511 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/namei.c
@@ -922,7 +922,8 @@ restart:
bh = ext3_getblk(NULL, dir, b++, 0, &err);
bh_use[ra_max] = bh;
if (bh)
- ll_rw_block(READ | REQ_META, 1, &bh);
+ ll_rw_block(READ | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO,
+ 1, &bh);
}
}
if ((bh = bh_use[ra_ptr++]) == NULL)