linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] block: separate priority boosting from REQ

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Message-ID: <4E53A27E.9040007@fusionio.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:52:14 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] block: separate priority boosting from REQ_META

On 2011-08-23 12:09, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, applied 1/2 and this one to for-linus.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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