Commit 1d796d6a authored by Jens Axboe's avatar Jens Axboe

block: add REQ_BACKGROUND

This adds a new request flag, REQ_BACKGROUND, that callers can use to
tell the block layer that this is background (non-urgent) IO.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
parent 7281b452
...@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ enum req_flag_bits { ...@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ enum req_flag_bits {
__REQ_FUA, /* forced unit access */ __REQ_FUA, /* forced unit access */
__REQ_PREFLUSH, /* request for cache flush */ __REQ_PREFLUSH, /* request for cache flush */
__REQ_RAHEAD, /* read ahead, can fail anytime */ __REQ_RAHEAD, /* read ahead, can fail anytime */
__REQ_BACKGROUND, /* background IO */
__REQ_NR_BITS, /* stops here */ __REQ_NR_BITS, /* stops here */
}; };
...@@ -192,6 +193,7 @@ enum req_flag_bits { ...@@ -192,6 +193,7 @@ enum req_flag_bits {
#define REQ_FUA (1ULL << __REQ_FUA) #define REQ_FUA (1ULL << __REQ_FUA)
#define REQ_PREFLUSH (1ULL << __REQ_PREFLUSH) #define REQ_PREFLUSH (1ULL << __REQ_PREFLUSH)
#define REQ_RAHEAD (1ULL << __REQ_RAHEAD) #define REQ_RAHEAD (1ULL << __REQ_RAHEAD)
#define REQ_BACKGROUND (1ULL << __REQ_BACKGROUND)
#define REQ_FAILFAST_MASK \ #define REQ_FAILFAST_MASK \
(REQ_FAILFAST_DEV | REQ_FAILFAST_TRANSPORT | REQ_FAILFAST_DRIVER) (REQ_FAILFAST_DEV | REQ_FAILFAST_TRANSPORT | REQ_FAILFAST_DRIVER)
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