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block: introduce REQ_FLUSH flag 

SCSI-ml needs a way to mark a request as flush request in
q->prepare_flush_fn because it needs to identify them later (e.g. in
q->request_fn or prep_rq_fn).

queue_flush sets REQ_HARDBARRIER in rq->cmd_flags however the block
layer also sends normal REQ_TYPE_FS requests with REQ_HARDBARRIER. So
SCSI-ml can't use REQ_HARDBARRIER to identify flush requests.

We could change the block layer to clear REQ_HARDBARRIER bit before
sending non flush requests to the lower layers. However, intorudcing
the new flag looks cleaner (surely easier).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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FUJITA Tomonori 2010-07-03 17:45:32 +09:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent 802447c1c0
commit 8749534fe6
2 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
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block/blk-barrier.c
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@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static void queue_flush(struct request_queue *q, unsigned which)
}
blk_rq_init(q, rq);
rq->cmd_flags = REQ_HARDBARRIER;
rq->cmd_flags = REQ_HARDBARRIER | REQ_FLUSH;
rq->rq_disk = q->bar_rq.rq_disk;
rq->end_io = end_io;
q->prepare_flush_fn(q, rq);

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include/linux/bio.h
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@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ enum rq_flag_bits {
__REQ_ALLOCED, /* request came from our alloc pool */
__REQ_COPY_USER, /* contains copies of user pages */
__REQ_INTEGRITY, /* integrity metadata has been remapped */
__REQ_FLUSH, /* request for cache flush */
__REQ_IO_STAT, /* account I/O stat */
__REQ_MIXED_MERGE, /* merge of different types, fail separately */
__REQ_NR_BITS, /* stops here */
@ -213,6 +214,7 @@ enum rq_flag_bits {
#define REQ_ALLOCED (1 << __REQ_ALLOCED)
#define REQ_COPY_USER (1 << __REQ_COPY_USER)
#define REQ_INTEGRITY (1 << __REQ_INTEGRITY)
#define REQ_FLUSH (1 << __REQ_FLUSH)
#define REQ_IO_STAT (1 << __REQ_IO_STAT)
#define REQ_MIXED_MERGE (1 << __REQ_MIXED_MERGE)