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" <[email protected]>
progmanos · Apr 20, 2013 · 9f20350 · 9f20350
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diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t block_group)
 	trace_ext4_read_block_bitmap_load(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);
 	return bh;
 verify:
 	ext4_validate_block_bitmap(sb, desc, block_group, bh);

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -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);

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mmp.c b/fs/ext4/mmp.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static int write_mmp_block(struct super_block *sb, struct buffer_head *bh)
 	lock_buffer(bh);
 	bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_write_sync;
 	get_bh(bh);
-	submit_bh(WRITE_SYNC, bh);
+	submit_bh(WRITE_SYNC | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO, bh);
 	wait_on_buffer(bh);
 	sb_end_write(sb);
 	if (unlikely(!buffer_uptodate(bh)))
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ static int read_mmp_block(struct super_block *sb, struct buffer_head **bh,
 		get_bh(*bh);
 		lock_buffer(*bh);
 		(*bh)->b_end_io = end_buffer_read_sync;
-		submit_bh(READ_SYNC, *bh);
+		submit_bh(READ_SYNC | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO, *bh);
 		wait_on_buffer(*bh);
 		if (!buffer_uptodate(*bh)) {
 			brelse(*bh);

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -4252,7 +4252,7 @@ static journal_t *ext4_get_dev_journal(struct super_block *sb,
 		goto out_bdev;
 	}
 	journal->j_private = sb;
-	ll_rw_block(READ, 1, &journal->j_sb_buffer);
+	ll_rw_block(READ | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO, 1, &journal->j_sb_buffer);
 	wait_on_buffer(journal->j_sb_buffer);
 	if (!buffer_uptodate(journal->j_sb_buffer)) {
 		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "I/O error on journal device");