From 8749534fe6826596b71bc409c872b047a8e2755b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: FUJITA Tomonori Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 17:45:32 +0900 Subject: block: introduce REQ_FLUSH flag SCSI-ml needs a way to mark a request as flush request in q->prepare_flush_fn because it needs to identify them later (e.g. in q->request_fn or prep_rq_fn). queue_flush sets REQ_HARDBARRIER in rq->cmd_flags however the block layer also sends normal REQ_TYPE_FS requests with REQ_HARDBARRIER. So SCSI-ml can't use REQ_HARDBARRIER to identify flush requests. We could change the block layer to clear REQ_HARDBARRIER bit before sending non flush requests to the lower layers. However, intorudcing the new flag looks cleaner (surely easier). Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori Cc: James Bottomley Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Alasdair G Kergon Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/blk-barrier.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'block/blk-barrier.c') diff --git a/block/blk-barrier.c b/block/blk-barrier.c index 7c6f4a71468..a3482425c50 100644 --- a/block/blk-barrier.c +++ b/block/blk-barrier.c @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static void queue_flush(struct request_queue *q, unsigned which) } blk_rq_init(q, rq); - rq->cmd_flags = REQ_HARDBARRIER; + rq->cmd_flags = REQ_HARDBARRIER | REQ_FLUSH; rq->rq_disk = q->bar_rq.rq_disk; rq->end_io = end_io; q->prepare_flush_fn(q, rq); -- cgit v1.2.3