diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre/lustre_idl.h b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre/lustre_idl.h
index 0ef540aebafb..9185ed2c4650 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre/lustre_idl.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre/lustre_idl.h
@@ -1433,6 +1433,7 @@ enum obdo_flags {
 	OBD_FL_RECOV_RESEND = 0x00080000, /* recoverable resent */
 	OBD_FL_NOSPC_BLK    = 0x00100000, /* no more block space on OST */
 	OBD_FL_FLUSH	    = 0x00200000, /* flush pages on the OST */
+	OBD_FL_SHORT_IO	    = 0x00400000, /* short io request */
 
 	/* Note that while these checksum values are currently separate bits,
 	 * in 2.x we can actually allow all values from 1-31 if we wanted.