This adds a flag that tells the file system that this is a high priority request for which it's worth to poll the hardware. The flag is purely advisory and can be ignored if not supported. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- fs/read_write.c | 6 ++++-- include/linux/fs.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c index caa30ac..4dc377e 100644 --- a/fs/read_write.c +++ b/fs/read_write.c @@ -658,10 +658,12 @@ static ssize_t do_iter_readv_writev(struct file *filp, struct iov_iter *iter, struct kiocb kiocb; ssize_t ret; - if (flags) + if (flags & ~RWF_HIPRI) return -EOPNOTSUPP; init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, filp); + if (flags & RWF_HIPRI) + kiocb.ki_flags |= IOCB_HIPRI; kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos; ret = fn(&kiocb, iter); @@ -676,7 +678,7 @@ static ssize_t do_loop_readv_writev(struct file *filp, struct iov_iter *iter, { ssize_t ret = 0; - if (flags) + if (flags & ~RWF_HIPRI) return -EOPNOTSUPP; while (iov_iter_count(iter)) { diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 2b0e078..0247620 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -319,6 +319,7 @@ struct writeback_control; #define IOCB_EVENTFD (1 << 0) #define IOCB_APPEND (1 << 1) #define IOCB_DIRECT (1 << 2) +#define IOCB_HIPRI (1 << 3) struct kiocb { struct file *ki_filp; diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h index f15d980..42f7627 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h @@ -208,4 +208,7 @@ struct inodes_stat_t { #define SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE 2 #define SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER 4 +/* flags for preadv2/pwritev2: */ +#define RWF_HIPRI 0x00000001 /* high priority request, poll if possible */ + #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_FS_H */ -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html