Inherit the iocb IOCB_HIPRI flag, and pass on REQ_HIPRI for those kinds of requests. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/block_dev.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c index 7810f5b588ea..c124982b810d 100644 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@ -386,6 +386,9 @@ __blkdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter, int nr_pages) nr_pages = iov_iter_npages(iter, BIO_MAX_PAGES); if (!nr_pages) { + if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_HIPRI) + bio->bi_opf |= REQ_HIPRI; + qc = submit_bio(bio); break; } -- 2.17.1