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authorMike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>2016-06-05 14:32:23 -0500
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2016-06-07 13:41:38 -0600
commit3a5e02ced11e22ecd9da3d6710afe15bcfee1d10 (patch)
tree78f6d1a737b01b559b61310b9355f1f7ecfdd54c /include
parent4e1b2d52a80d79296a5d899d73249748dea71a53 (diff)
block, drivers: add REQ_OP_FLUSH operation
This adds a REQ_OP_FLUSH operation that is sent to request_fn based drivers by the block layer's flush code, instead of sending requests with the request->cmd_flags REQ_FLUSH bit set. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/blk_types.h3
-rw-r--r--include/linux/blkdev.h3
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h
index 23c1ab2a9475..32d87522f349 100644
--- a/include/linux/blk_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h
@@ -249,9 +249,10 @@ enum req_op {
REQ_OP_WRITE,
REQ_OP_DISCARD, /* request to discard sectors */
REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME, /* write same block many times */
+ REQ_OP_FLUSH, /* request for cache flush */
};
-#define REQ_OP_BITS 2
+#define REQ_OP_BITS 3
typedef unsigned int blk_qc_t;
#define BLK_QC_T_NONE -1U
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 78ae3dbf2de1..0c9f8793c87e 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -666,6 +666,9 @@ static inline bool rq_mergeable(struct request *rq)
if (rq->cmd_type != REQ_TYPE_FS)
return false;
+ if (req_op(rq) == REQ_OP_FLUSH)
+ return false;
+
if (rq->cmd_flags & REQ_NOMERGE_FLAGS)
return false;