Hey, Jens. On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 02:24:42PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 2011-02-02 23:55, Mike Snitzer wrote: > > REQ_SORTED is not set for flush requests because they are never put on > > the IO scheduler. > > That looks very wrong. REQ_SORTED gets set _when_ the request is sorted > into the IO scheduler. This is gross misuse, a bad hack. The rationale behind suggesting was that it indicates to the allocator that the request may be sorted as how the request will be used is communicated using @rw_flags to the allocator. The patch is buggy that the flag actually ends up on the request. Any better idea how to communicate it? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
