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>
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Theodore Ts'o 2013-04-20 15:46:17 -04:00
parent c4d8b0235a
commit 9f203507ed
4 changed files with 5 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -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);