On 06/14/2017 10:01 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 09:53:05AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: >> So how about we just call it "write_hint"? It sounds mostly like a >> naming issue to me, as you would then map that to some specific stream >> in your driver. You're free to do that right now. They are all flags, >> it's just packed as a value to not waste too much space. > > I think what Martin wants (or at least what I'd want him to want) is > to define a few REQ_* bits that mirror the RWF bits, use that to > transfer the information down the stack, and then only translate it > to stream ids in the driver. Sure, that's fine with me. Let me make that change. -- Jens Axboe
