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From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] block bits for 3.1-rc
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:37:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E515057.7040802@fusionio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110821181935.GA28979@infradead.org>

On 2011-08-21 20:19, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 07:56:17PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> The discussion was on lkml, as Mike points out. But yes, short time to
>> react. Since I can't easily cater to both cases right now, how about we
>> add a temporary second meta flag that is only used for tracing?
>>
>>         REQ_META        = (__REQ_META | __REQ_META_TRACE),
>>         RET_META_TRACE  = __REQ_META_TRACE,
>>
>> You get the idea. Not super pretty, but it should solve the immediate
>> issue.
> 
> I'd do it the other way around and add a new REQ_META_BOOST flag to
> the old callers.  I'll cook up a patch on the airport / on my flight
> if you want.

That would work fine as well, please do cook up the patch if you have
flight time anyway :-)

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-21 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-19 13:16 [GIT PULL] block bits for 3.1-rc Jens Axboe
2011-08-19 17:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-19 17:57   ` Jens Axboe
2011-08-20 17:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-20 19:15   ` Mike Snitzer
2011-08-21 17:56   ` Jens Axboe
2011-08-21 18:19     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-21 18:37       ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2011-08-22 16:52         ` [PATCH 1/2] block: remove READ_META and WRITE_META Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-22 16:52         ` [PATCH 2/2] block: separate priority boosting from REQ_META Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-23  2:05           ` Namhyung Kim
2011-08-23 10:09             ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] " Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-23 12:31               ` Namhyung Kim
2011-08-23 12:52               ` Jens Axboe

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