bdi: introduce BDI_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO

As discussed at

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/<20170728165604.10455-1-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>

someday we will remove rw_page().  If so, we need something to detect
such super-fast storage on which synchronous IO operations like the
current rw_page are always a win.

Introduces BDI_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO to indicate such devices.  With it, we
could use various optimization techniques.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1505886205-9671-3-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
index f41ca8486e02..7360e79e9a2f 100644
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int max_ratio);
  * BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT:    Keep number of dirty pages below bdi threshold.
  *
  * BDI_CAP_CGROUP_WRITEBACK: Supports cgroup-aware writeback.
+ * BDI_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO: Device is so fast that asynchronous IO would be
+ *			   inefficient.
  */
 #define BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_DIRTY	0x00000001
 #define BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK	0x00000002
@@ -129,6 +131,7 @@ int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int max_ratio);
 #define BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES	0x00000008
 #define BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT	0x00000010
 #define BDI_CAP_CGROUP_WRITEBACK 0x00000020
+#define BDI_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO	0x00000040
 
 #define BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_AND_WRITEBACK \
 	(BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK | BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_DIRTY | BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB)
@@ -174,6 +177,11 @@ static inline int wb_congested(struct bdi_writeback *wb, int cong_bits)
 long congestion_wait(int sync, long timeout);
 long wait_iff_congested(struct pglist_data *pgdat, int sync, long timeout);
 
+static inline bool bdi_cap_synchronous_io(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
+{
+	return bdi->capabilities & BDI_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO;
+}
+
 static inline bool bdi_cap_stable_pages_required(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
 {
 	return bdi->capabilities & BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES;