From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752988Ab1HUSTk (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:19:40 -0400 Received: from 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.166.109.252]:41115 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751630Ab1HUSTi (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:19:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:19:35 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jens Axboe Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] block bits for 3.1-rc Message-ID: <20110821181935.GA28979@infradead.org> References: <4E4E6238.3080808@fusionio.com> <20110820174137.GA27243@infradead.org> <4E5146C1.508@fusionio.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E5146C1.508@fusionio.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.