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author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2008-12-31 23:05:57 +1030 |
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committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2008-12-31 23:05:57 +1030 |
commit | 2ca1a615835d9f4990f42102ab1f2ef434e7e89c (patch) | |
tree | 726cf3d5f29a6c66c44e4bd68e7ebed2fd83d059 /Documentation/block/biodoc.txt | |
parent | e12f0102ac81d660c9f801d0a0e10ccf4537a9de (diff) | |
parent | 6a94cb73064c952255336cc57731904174b2c58f (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/biodoc.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt index 4dbb8be1c99..3c5434c83da 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt @@ -914,7 +914,7 @@ I/O scheduler, a.k.a. elevator, is implemented in two layers. Generic dispatch queue and specific I/O schedulers. Unless stated otherwise, elevator is used to refer to both parts and I/O scheduler to specific I/O schedulers. -Block layer implements generic dispatch queue in ll_rw_blk.c and elevator.c. +Block layer implements generic dispatch queue in block/*.c. The generic dispatch queue is responsible for properly ordering barrier requests, requeueing, handling non-fs requests and all other subtleties. @@ -926,8 +926,8 @@ be built inside the kernel. Each queue can choose different one and can also change to another one dynamically. A block layer call to the i/o scheduler follows the convention elv_xxx(). This -calls elevator_xxx_fn in the elevator switch (drivers/block/elevator.c). Oh, -xxx and xxx might not match exactly, but use your imagination. If an elevator +calls elevator_xxx_fn in the elevator switch (block/elevator.c). Oh, xxx +and xxx might not match exactly, but use your imagination. If an elevator doesn't implement a function, the switch does nothing or some minimal house keeping work. |