From ff7d145fd911266ae42af7552edc32681c01addb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:04:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] Add one more pointer to struct request for IO scheduler usage Then we have enough room in the request to get rid of the dynamic allocations in CFQ/AS. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/blkdev.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 55ef6ef..d2dc171 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -232,7 +232,13 @@ struct request { struct hlist_node hash; /* merge hash */ struct rb_node rb_node; /* sort/lookup */ + /* + * two pointers are available for the IO schedulers, if they need + * more they have to dynamically allocate it. + */ void *elevator_private; + void *elevator_private2; + void *completion_data; int rq_status; /* should split this into a few status bits */ -- 2.7.4