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Commit af563942 authored by Jens Axboe's avatar Jens Axboe
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block: add some comments around the bio read-write flags

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@@ -123,13 +123,23 @@ struct bio {
/*
 * bio bi_rw flags
 *
 * bit 0 -- read (not set) or write (set)
 * bit 0 -- data direction
 *	If not set, bio is a read from device. If set, it's a write to device.
 * bit 1 -- rw-ahead when set
 * bit 2 -- barrier
 *	Insert a serialization point in the IO queue, forcing previously
 *	submitted IO to be completed before this oen is issued.
 * bit 3 -- fail fast, don't want low level driver retries
 * bit 4 -- synchronous I/O hint: the block layer will unplug immediately
 *	Note that this does NOT indicate that the IO itself is sync, just
 *	that the block layer will not postpone issue of this IO by plugging.
 * bit 5 -- metadata request
 *	Used for tracing to differentiate metadata and data IO. May also
 *	get some preferential treatment in the IO scheduler
 * bit 6 -- discard sectors
 *	Informs the lower level device that this range of sectors is no longer
 *	used by the file system and may thus be freed by the device. Used
 *	for flash based storage.
 */
#define BIO_RW		0	/* Must match RW in req flags (blkdev.h) */
#define BIO_RW_AHEAD	1	/* Must match FAILFAST in req flags */