> This patch partially reverts commit c75e707fe1aa ("block: remove the per- > bio/request write hint"). The following aspects of that commit have been > reverted: > - Pass the struct kiocb write hint information to struct bio. > - Pass the struct bio write hint information to struct request. > - Do not merge requests with different write hints. > - Passing write hint information from the VFS layer to the block layer. > - In F2FS, initialization of bio.bi_write_hint. > > The following aspects of that commit have been dropped: > - Debugfs support for retrieving and modifying write hints. > - md-raid, BTRFS, ext4, gfs2 and zonefs write hint support. > - The write_hints[] array in struct request_queue. > > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Avri Altman <avri.altman@xxxxxxx>