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>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 1dfa18f..c7cbb3d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@
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;
@@ -3301,7 +3301,7 @@
trace_ext4_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)) {
EXT4_ERROR_INODE_BLOCK(inode, block,