Re: [PATCH] set request fastfail bit

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Mar 10 2004 - 04:04:50 EST


On Tue, Mar 09 2004, Mike Christie wrote:
> The first three bio and request flags are no longer identical.
> The bio barrier and rw flags are getting set in __make_request
> and get_request respectively, and failfast is getting
> left out. The attached patch (built against 2.6.4-rc3)
> sets the request's failfast flag in __make_request when the bio's
> flag is set.
>
> Mike Chrisite

> --- linux-2.6.4-rc3-orig/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c 2004-03-09 22:21:26.819208694 -0800
> +++ linux-2.6.4-rc3-ff/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c 2004-03-09 22:37:02.395169904 -0800
> @@ -2121,11 +2121,14 @@ get_rq:
> goto again;
> }
>
> + req->flags |= REQ_CMD;
> +
> /*
> - * first three bits are identical in rq->flags and bio->bi_rw,
> - * see bio.h and blkdev.h
> + * inherit FAILFAST from bio and don't stack up
> + * retries for read ahead
> */
> - req->flags = (bio->bi_rw & 7) | REQ_CMD;
> + if (ra || test_bit(BIO_RW_FAILFAST, &bio->bi_rw))
> + req->flags |= REQ_FAILFAST;
>
> /*
> * REQ_BARRIER implies no merging, but lets make it explicit
> @@ -2133,12 +2136,6 @@ get_rq:
> if (barrier)
> req->flags |= (REQ_HARDBARRIER | REQ_NOMERGE);
>
> - /*
> - * don't stack up retries for read ahead
> - */
> - if (ra)
> - req->flags |= REQ_FAILFAST;
> -
> req->errors = 0;
> req->hard_sector = req->sector = sector;
> req->hard_nr_sectors = req->nr_sectors = nr_sectors;

Thanks Mike, patch looks good.

--
Jens Axboe

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