On 11/04/2015 04:44 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On 11/04/2015 02:08 PM, mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> From: Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> In later patches the op will no longer be a bitmap, so we will >> not have REQ_WRITE set for all non reads like discard, flush, >> and write same. Drivers will still want to treat them as writes >> for accounting reasons, so this patch adds a helper to translate >> a op to a data direction. >> >> Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> include/linux/blkdev.h | 12 ++++++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h >> index 19c2e94..cf5f518 100644 >> --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h >> +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h >> @@ -586,6 +586,18 @@ static inline void queue_flag_clear(unsigned int >> flag, struct request_queue *q) >> >> #define list_entry_rq(ptr) list_entry((ptr), struct request, >> queuelist) >> >> +/* >> + * Non REQ_OP_WRITE requests like discard, write same, etc, are >> + * considered WRITEs. >> + */ >> +static inline int op_to_data_dir(int op) >> +{ >> + if (op == REQ_OP_READ) >> + return READ; >> + else >> + return WRITE; >> +} >> + >> #define rq_data_dir(rq) ((int)((rq)->cmd_flags & 1)) >> >> /* >> > > How about introducing two functions - op_is_write() and op_is_read() ? I > think that approach will result in shorter and easier to read code in > the contexts where these functions are used. > I can do that. You are right in how they are used. I just did the above, to follow the other *_data_dir calls. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel