bdi: introduce BDI_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO
As discussed at
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/<20170728165604.10455-1-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
someday we will remove rw_page(). If so, we need something to detect
such super-fast storage on which synchronous IO operations like the
current rw_page are always a win.
Introduces BDI_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO to indicate such devices. With it, we
could use various optimization techniques.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1505886205-9671-3-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
index f41ca84..7360e79 100644
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@
* BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT: Keep number of dirty pages below bdi threshold.
*
* BDI_CAP_CGROUP_WRITEBACK: Supports cgroup-aware writeback.
+ * BDI_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO: Device is so fast that asynchronous IO would be
+ * inefficient.
*/
#define BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_DIRTY 0x00000001
#define BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK 0x00000002
@@ -129,6 +131,7 @@
#define BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES 0x00000008
#define BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT 0x00000010
#define BDI_CAP_CGROUP_WRITEBACK 0x00000020
+#define BDI_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO 0x00000040
#define BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_AND_WRITEBACK \
(BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK | BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_DIRTY | BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB)
@@ -174,6 +177,11 @@
long congestion_wait(int sync, long timeout);
long wait_iff_congested(struct pglist_data *pgdat, int sync, long timeout);
+static inline bool bdi_cap_synchronous_io(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
+{
+ return bdi->capabilities & BDI_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO;
+}
+
static inline bool bdi_cap_stable_pages_required(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
return bdi->capabilities & BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES;