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/gfs2/log.c b/fs/gfs2/log.c
index 85c6292..5986464 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/log.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/log.c
@@ -624,9 +624,9 @@
bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_write_sync;
get_bh(bh);
if (test_bit(SDF_NOBARRIERS, &sdp->sd_flags))
- submit_bh(WRITE_SYNC | REQ_META, bh);
+ submit_bh(WRITE_SYNC | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO, bh);
else
- submit_bh(WRITE_FLUSH_FUA | REQ_META, bh);
+ submit_bh(WRITE_FLUSH_FUA | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO, bh);
wait_on_buffer(bh);
if (!buffer_uptodate(bh))