From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 09:32:37 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: add support for passing in write hints for buffered
 writes
Git-commit: 0127251c45ae74befb21db17754a66f55feff6a8
Patch-Mainline: v4.13-rc1
References: bsc#1104967,FATE#325924

Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
---
 fs/ext4/page-io.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index 930ca0fc9a0f..c2fce4478cca 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -350,6 +350,7 @@ void ext4_io_submit(struct ext4_io_submit *io)
 	if (bio) {
 		int io_op_flags = io->io_wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL ?
 				  REQ_SYNC : 0;
+		io->io_bio->bi_write_hint = io->io_end->inode->i_write_hint;
 		bio_set_op_attrs(io->io_bio, REQ_OP_WRITE, io_op_flags);
 		submit_bio(io->io_bio);
 	}
@@ -397,6 +398,7 @@ static int io_submit_add_bh(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
 		ret = io_submit_init_bio(io, bh);
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;
+		io->io_bio->bi_write_hint = inode->i_write_hint;
 	}
 	ret = bio_add_page(io->io_bio, page, bh->b_size, bh_offset(bh));
 	if (ret != bh->b_size)
-- 
2.16.4