Re: [GIT PULL] block bits for 3.1-rc

[Jens Axboe]

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

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