[PATCH 1/7] iosched: introduce WRITEA

[Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>]

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Introduce WRITEA as 3, and redefine SWRITE as 5.

I'm not sure if WRITEA will ever be used, though it would be better to
redefine SWRITE to avoid possible conflict with BIO_RW_AHEAD.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
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--- linux-2.6.17-rc6-mm2.orig/include/linux/fs.h
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc6-mm2/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -74,8 +74,9 @@ extern int dir_notify_enable;
 #define READ 0
 #define WRITE 1
 #define READA 2		/* read-ahead  - don't block if no resources */
-#define SWRITE 3	/* for ll_rw_block() - wait for buffer lock */
+#define WRITEA 3	/* write-ahead - don't block if no resources */
 #define SPECIAL 4	/* For non-blockdevice requests in request queue */
+#define SWRITE 5	/* for ll_rw_block() - wait for buffer lock */
 #define READ_SYNC	(READ | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNC))
 #define WRITE_SYNC	(WRITE | (1 << BIO_RW_SYNC))
 #define WRITE_BARRIER	((1 << BIO_RW) | (1 << BIO_RW_BARRIER))

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