[PATCH 1/3] xfs: flag all buffers as metadata
Alex Elder
aelder at sgi.com
Tue Jul 26 17:38:55 CDT 2011
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 11:06 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Now that REQ_META bios aren't treated specially in the CFQ I/O schedule
> anymore, we can tag all buffers as metadata to make blktrace traces more
> meaningful. Note that we use buffers also to zero out partial blocks
> in the preallocation / hole punching code, and while they operate on
> data blocks the zeros written certainly aren't data. I think this case
> is borderline metadata enough to not bother special casing it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
This looks good. I plan to re-base the xfs master branch
after 3.1-rc1 is out, so I'll wait until after that to
commit this (and the others in this series).
If you want me to do something different, let me know.
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder at sgi.com>
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