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/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index d36315a..1c924fa 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -922,7 +922,8 @@
bh = ext4_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)