The information that am I/O is a read-ahead can be useful for drivers. In fact the NVMe driver already checks it, even if it won't ever be set at the moment.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> --- include/linux/blk_types.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h index b541425..44f9bca 100644 --- a/include/linux/blk_types.h +++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h @@ -163,9 +163,9 @@ enum rq_flag_bits { __REQ_INTEGRITY, /* I/O includes block integrity payload */ __REQ_FUA, /* forced unit access */ __REQ_PREFLUSH, /* request for cache flush */ + __REQ_RAHEAD, /* read ahead, can fail anytime */ /* bio only flags */ - __REQ_RAHEAD, /* read ahead, can fail anytime */ __REQ_THROTTLED, /* This bio has already been subjected to * throttling rules. Don't do it again. */ @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ enum rq_flag_bits { (REQ_FAILFAST_DEV | REQ_FAILFAST_TRANSPORT | REQ_FAILFAST_DRIVER) #define REQ_COMMON_MASK \ (REQ_FAILFAST_MASK | REQ_SYNC | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO | REQ_NOIDLE | \ - REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FUA | REQ_INTEGRITY | REQ_NOMERGE) + REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FUA | REQ_INTEGRITY | REQ_NOMERGE | REQ_RAHEAD) #define REQ_CLONE_MASK REQ_COMMON_MASK /* This mask is used for both bio and request merge checking */ -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
