Re: [PATCH v2] Btrfs: add write_flags for compression bio

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On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 11:18:16PM -0600, Liu Bo wrote:
> Compression code path has only flaged bios with REQ_OP_WRITE no matter
> where the bios come from, but it could be a sync write if fsync starts
> this writeback or a normal writeback write if wb kthread starts a
> periodic writeback.
> 
> It breaks the rule that sync writes and writeback writes need to be
> differentiated from each other, because from the POV of block layer,
> all bios need to be recognized by these flags in order to do some
> management, e.g. throttlling.
> 
> This passes writeback_control to compression write path so that it can
> send bios with proper flags to block layer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
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