If this kiocb can safely use the polled bio allocation cache, then this flag must be set. Generally this can be set for polled IO, where we will not see IRQ completions of the request. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/fs.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 640574294216..0dcc5de779c9 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -319,6 +319,8 @@ enum rw_hint { /* iocb->ki_waitq is valid */ #define IOCB_WAITQ (1 << 19) #define IOCB_NOIO (1 << 20) +/* can use bio alloc cache */ +#define IOCB_ALLOC_CACHE (1 << 21) struct kiocb { struct file *ki_filp; -- 2.32.0