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Subject[PATCH 1/8] block: add WRITE_BACKGROUND
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This adds a new request flag, REQ_BACKGROUND, that callers can use to
tell the block layer that this is background (non-urgent) IO.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
---
include/linux/blk_types.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h
index bb921028e7c5..562ac46cb790 100644
--- a/include/linux/blk_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ enum req_flag_bits {
__REQ_FUA, /* forced unit access */
__REQ_PREFLUSH, /* request for cache flush */
__REQ_RAHEAD, /* read ahead, can fail anytime */
+ __REQ_BACKGROUND, /* background IO */
__REQ_NR_BITS, /* stops here */
};

@@ -192,6 +193,7 @@ enum req_flag_bits {
#define REQ_FUA (1ULL << __REQ_FUA)
#define REQ_PREFLUSH (1ULL << __REQ_PREFLUSH)
#define REQ_RAHEAD (1ULL << __REQ_RAHEAD)
+#define REQ_BACKGROUND (1ULL << __REQ_BACKGROUND)

#define REQ_FAILFAST_MASK \
(REQ_FAILFAST_DEV | REQ_FAILFAST_TRANSPORT | REQ_FAILFAST_DRIVER)
--
2.7.4
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