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authorJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2016-11-01 09:52:57 -0600
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2016-11-02 10:24:01 -0600
commit1d796d6a9641fbfcd90fcfaf6fb4894a13d0304f (patch)
tree936f37c21014cf3fc61490f85503bbd3f3836046
parent7281b4526cefc898d180850b54d1369f38c6b202 (diff)
downloadlinux-1d796d6a9641fbfcd90fcfaf6fb4894a13d0304f.tar.gz
block: add REQ_BACKGROUND
This adds a new request flag, REQ_BACKGROUND, that callers can use to
tell the block layer that this is background (non-urgent) IO.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/blk_types.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h
index bb921028e7c5..562ac46cb790 100644
--- a/include/linux/blk_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ enum req_flag_bits {
 	__REQ_FUA,		/* forced unit access */
 	__REQ_PREFLUSH,		/* request for cache flush */
 	__REQ_RAHEAD,		/* read ahead, can fail anytime */
+	__REQ_BACKGROUND,	/* background IO */
 	__REQ_NR_BITS,		/* stops here */
 };
 
@@ -192,6 +193,7 @@ enum req_flag_bits {
 #define REQ_FUA			(1ULL << __REQ_FUA)
 #define REQ_PREFLUSH		(1ULL << __REQ_PREFLUSH)
 #define REQ_RAHEAD		(1ULL << __REQ_RAHEAD)
+#define REQ_BACKGROUND		(1ULL << __REQ_BACKGROUND)
 
 #define REQ_FAILFAST_MASK \
 	(REQ_FAILFAST_DEV | REQ_FAILFAST_TRANSPORT | REQ_FAILFAST_DRIVER)