On 06/14/2017 10:00 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > Jens, > >> 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. > > Sure, that's fine with me. But let's call them bi_hints or something. I > have a couple that I would like to add that are I/O direction agnostic. Assuming you saw Christoph's reply, if we just make then bio/req flags, you can translate them into whatever you want. Work for you? -- Jens Axboe