linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/7] zram: mark the disk as non-rotating media

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Message-ID: <20110126174843.GR2721@bicker>
Date:	Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:48:43 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] zram: mark the disk as non-rotating media


On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:27:44AM -0600, Robert Jennings wrote:
> Adding QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT for the in the request_queue flags.  When used
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"to the" perhaps?

> as a swap device, scan_swap_map will avoid the extra work of optimizing
> for rotating media.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> index d5e0275..450c618 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> @@ -593,6 +593,7 @@ static int create_device(struct zram *zram, int device_id)
>  		goto out;
>  	}
>  
> +	zram->queue->queue_flags ^= QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT;

QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT is 14.  We want to set the 14 bit.  This won't work.

Use queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, zram->queue);

regards,
dan carpenter


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