[PATCH 4/7] elevator: introduce a way to reuse rq for internal FIFO handling

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

[PATCH] elevator: introduce a way to reuse rq for internal FIFO handling

The io schedulers can use this instead of having to allocate space for
it themselves.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
---
 include/linux/elevator.h |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/elevator.h b/include/linux/elevator.h
index 38f0f0d..6e1c903 100644
--- a/include/linux/elevator.h
+++ b/include/linux/elevator.h
@@ -167,4 +167,16 @@ enum {
 #define rq_end_sector(rq)	((rq)->sector + (rq)->nr_sectors)
 #define rb_entry_rq(node)	rb_entry((node), struct request, rb_node)
 
+/*
+ * Hack to reuse the donelist list_head as the fifo time holder while
+ * the request is in the io scheduler. Saves an unsigned long in rq.
+ */
+#define rq_fifo_time(rq)	((unsigned long) (rq)->donelist.next)
+#define rq_set_fifo_time(rq,exp)	((rq)->donelist.next = (void *) (exp))
+#define rq_entry_fifo(ptr)	list_entry((ptr), struct request, queuelist)
+#define rq_fifo_clear(rq)	do {		\
+	list_del_init(&(rq)->queuelist);	\
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&(rq)->donelist);	\
+	} while (0)
+ 
 #endif
-- 
1.4.1.ged0e0

-- 
Jens Axboe

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