Re: [PATCH 2/2] block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request

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On 2010-06-18 09:47, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too.
> This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem
> down to the block driver.  There were two flags in the bio that were
> missing in the requests:  BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD.  Also I've
> renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them.
> 
> Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as
> blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now.

Good stuff, thanks Christoph. We need to be really careful with
this of course, I'll toss it into the testing mix.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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