[PATCH 1/4] btrfs: add flags to give an hint to the chunk allocator

[Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@tiscali.it>]

From: Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@inwind.it>

Add the following flags to give an hint about which chunk should be
allocated in which a disk.
The following flags are created:

- BTRFS_DEV_ALLOCATION_PREFERRED_DATA
  preferred data chunk, but metadata chunk allowed
- BTRFS_DEV_ALLOCATION_PREFERRED_METADATA
  preferred metadata chunk, but data chunk allowed
- BTRFS_DEV_ALLOCATION_METADATA_ONLY
  only metadata chunk allowed
- BTRFS_DEV_ALLOCATION_DATA_ONLY
  only data chunk allowed

Signed-off-by: Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@inwid.it>
---
 include/uapi/linux/btrfs_tree.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/btrfs_tree.h b/include/uapi/linux/btrfs_tree.h
index ccdb40fe40dc..b45322b347c2 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/btrfs_tree.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/btrfs_tree.h
@@ -361,6 +361,20 @@ struct btrfs_key {
 	__u64 offset;
 } __attribute__ ((__packed__));
 
+/* dev_item.type */
+
+/* btrfs chunk allocation hints */
+#define BTRFS_DEV_ALLOCATION_MASK_BIT_COUNT	3
+/* preferred data chunk, but metadata chunk allowed */
+#define BTRFS_DEV_ALLOCATION_PREFERRED_DATA	(0ULL)
+/* preferred metadata chunk, but data chunk allowed */
+#define BTRFS_DEV_ALLOCATION_PREFERRED_METADATA	(1ULL)
+/* only metadata chunk are allowed */
+#define BTRFS_DEV_ALLOCATION_METADATA_ONLY	(2ULL)
+/* only data chunk allowed */
+#define BTRFS_DEV_ALLOCATION_DATA_ONLY		(3ULL)
+/* 5..7 are unused values */
+
 struct btrfs_dev_item {
 	/* the internal btrfs device id */
 	__le64 devid;
-- 
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