Those will go straight to issue inside blk-mq, so don't bother setting up a block plug for them. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/block_dev.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c index c124982b810d..9dc695a3af4e 100644 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@ -356,7 +356,13 @@ __blkdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter, int nr_pages) dio->multi_bio = false; dio->should_dirty = is_read && iter_is_iovec(iter); - blk_start_plug(&plug); + /* + * Don't plug for HIPRI/polled IO, as those should go straight + * to issue + */ + if (!(iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_HIPRI)) + blk_start_plug(&plug); + for (;;) { bio_set_dev(bio, bdev); bio->bi_iter.bi_sector = pos >> 9; @@ -403,7 +409,9 @@ __blkdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter, int nr_pages) submit_bio(bio); bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, nr_pages); } - blk_finish_plug(&plug); + + if (!(iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_HIPRI)) + blk_finish_plug(&plug); if (!is_sync) return -EIOCBQUEUED; -- 2.17.1