gfs2: add flag REQ_PRIO for metadata I/O

When gfs2 does metadata I/O, only REQ_META is used as a metadata hint of
the bio. But flag REQ_META is just a hint for block trace, not for block
layer code to handle a bio as metadata request.

For some of metadata I/Os of gfs2, A REQ_PRIO flag on the metadata bio
would be very informative to block layer code. For example, if bcache is
used as a I/O cache for gfs2, it will be possible for bcache code to get
the hint and cache the pre-fetched metadata blocks on cache device. This
behavior may be helpful to improve metadata I/O performance if the
following requests hit the cache.

Here are the locations in gfs2 code where a REQ_PRIO flag should be added,
- All places where REQ_READAHEAD is used, gfs2 code uses this flag for
  metadata read ahead.
- In gfs2_meta_rq() where the first metadata block is read in.
- In gfs2_write_buf_to_page(), read in quota metadata blocks to have them
  up to date.
These metadata blocks are probably to be accessed again in future, adding
a REQ_PRIO flag may have bcache to keep such metadata in fast cache
device. For system without a cache layer, REQ_PRIO can still provide hint
to block layer to handle metadata requests more properly.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c b/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
index 4da7745c890a..61ef6c9be816 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ struct buffer_head *gfs2_meta_ra(struct gfs2_glock *gl, u64 dblock, u32 extlen)
 	if (buffer_uptodate(first_bh))
 		goto out;
 	if (!buffer_locked(first_bh))
-		ll_rw_block(REQ_OP_READ, REQ_META, 1, &first_bh);
+		ll_rw_block(REQ_OP_READ, REQ_META | REQ_PRIO, 1, &first_bh);
 
 	dblock++;
 	extlen--;
@@ -462,7 +462,9 @@ struct buffer_head *gfs2_meta_ra(struct gfs2_glock *gl, u64 dblock, u32 extlen)
 		bh = gfs2_getbuf(gl, dblock, CREATE);
 
 		if (!buffer_uptodate(bh) && !buffer_locked(bh))
-			ll_rw_block(REQ_OP_READ, REQ_RAHEAD | REQ_META, 1, &bh);
+			ll_rw_block(REQ_OP_READ,
+				    REQ_RAHEAD | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO,
+				    1, &bh);
 		brelse(bh);
 		dblock++;
 		extlen--;