This is required to avoid waiting in lower layers. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/iomap/direct-io.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c index 20dde5aadcdd..9b53fa7651e3 100644 --- a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c +++ b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c @@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ static void iomap_dio_submit_bio(struct iomap_dio *dio, struct iomap *iomap, { atomic_inc(&dio->ref); + if (dio->iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) + bio->bi_opf |= REQ_NOWAIT; if (dio->iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_HIPRI) bio_set_polled(bio, dio->iocb);