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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2013-04-20 23:46:17 +0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2013-04-20 23:46:17 +0400
commit9f203507ed277ee86e3f76a15e09db1c92e40b94 (patch)
tree3055dbd2f6a885b20db3fda1d56ea0d9e780d9dd
parentc4d8b0235aa98f8c26bf94d308be3fdd24154572 (diff)
downloadlinux-9f203507ed277ee86e3f76a15e09db1c92e40b94.tar.xz
ext4: mark all metadata I/O with REQ_META
As Dave Chinner pointed out at the 2013 LSF/MM workshop, it's important that metadata I/O requests are marked as such to avoid priority inversions caused by I/O bandwidth throttling. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/balloc.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/ialloc.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/mmp.c4
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/super.c2
4 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
index 8dcaea69e37f..d0f13eada0ed 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t block_group)
trace_ext4_read_block_bitmap_load(sb, block_group);
bh->b_end_io = ext4_end_bitmap_read;
get_bh(bh);
- submit_bh(READ, bh);
+ submit_bh(READ | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO, bh);
return bh;
verify:
ext4_validate_block_bitmap(sb, desc, block_group, bh);
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
index 18d36d85f5c9..00a818d67b54 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ ext4_read_inode_bitmap(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t block_group)
trace_ext4_load_inode_bitmap(sb, block_group);
bh->b_end_io = ext4_end_bitmap_read;
get_bh(bh);
- submit_bh(READ, bh);
+ submit_bh(READ | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO, bh);
wait_on_buffer(bh);
if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
put_bh(bh);
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mmp.c b/fs/ext4/mmp.c
index b3b1f7d99448..214461e42a05 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mmp.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mmp.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static int write_mmp_block(struct super_block *sb, struct buffer_head *bh)
lock_buffer(bh);
bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_write_sync;
get_bh(bh);
- submit_bh(WRITE_SYNC, bh);
+ submit_bh(WRITE_SYNC | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO, bh);
wait_on_buffer(bh);
sb_end_write(sb);
if (unlikely(!buffer_uptodate(bh)))
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ static int read_mmp_block(struct super_block *sb, struct buffer_head **bh,
get_bh(*bh);
lock_buffer(*bh);
(*bh)->b_end_io = end_buffer_read_sync;
- submit_bh(READ_SYNC, *bh);
+ submit_bh(READ_SYNC | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO, *bh);
wait_on_buffer(*bh);
if (!buffer_uptodate(*bh)) {
brelse(*bh);
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index bfa29ecfb47a..dbc7c090c13a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -4252,7 +4252,7 @@ static journal_t *ext4_get_dev_journal(struct super_block *sb,
goto out_bdev;
}
journal->j_private = sb;
- ll_rw_block(READ, 1, &journal->j_sb_buffer);
+ ll_rw_block(READ | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO, 1, &journal->j_sb_buffer);
wait_on_buffer(journal->j_sb_buffer);
if (!buffer_uptodate(journal->j_sb_buffer)) {
ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "I/O error on journal device");