On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 11:21:14AM -0700, adam.manzana...@wdc.com wrote:
> If we want to avoid bloating struct kiocb, I suggest we turn the private 
> field 
> into a union of the private and ki_ioprio field. It seems like the users of 
> the private field all use it at a point where we can yank the priority from 
> the kiocb before the private field is used. Comments and suggestions welcome.

Or we could just make ki_hint a u8 or u16 ... seems unlikely we'll need
32 bits of ki_hint.  (currently defined values are 1-5)

> @@ -300,6 +301,7 @@ struct kiocb {
>       void                    *private;
>       int                     ki_flags;
>       enum rw_hint            ki_hint;
> +     u16                     ki_ioprio; /* See linux/ioprio.h */
>  } __randomize_layout;
>  
>  static inline bool is_sync_kiocb(struct kiocb *kiocb)

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