> * non-volatile media on completion. > + * WRITE_BG Background write. This is for background activity like > + * the periodic flush and background threshold writeback > * > */ > #define RW_MASK REQ_OP_WRITE > @@ -202,6 +204,7 @@ typedef int (dio_iodone_t)(struct kiocb *iocb, loff_t offset, > #define WRITE_FLUSH (REQ_SYNC | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_PREFLUSH) > #define WRITE_FUA (REQ_SYNC | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_FUA) > #define WRITE_FLUSH_FUA (REQ_SYNC | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FUA) > +#define WRITE_BG (REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_BG) I've been trying to kill off these WRITE_ flags as they aren't exactly helpful, see my branch here that I'm waiting for the previous serious to go in: http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/block.git/shortlog/refs/heads/block-flags Which also begs the question why you add the REQ_NOIDLE flag above, as it's only applied to synchronous queues in cfq as far as I can tell. And while I'm at nitpicking about the most trivial patch of the series anyway: any good reason to not just spell out the "BACKGROUND" ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
