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author | Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> | 2007-02-10 01:26:32 -0500 |
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committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> | 2007-02-10 01:26:32 -0500 |
commit | b22364c8eec89e6b0c081a237f3b6348df87796f (patch) | |
tree | 233a923281fb640106465d076997ff511efb6edf /Documentation/block/biodoc.txt | |
parent | 2c8dc071517ec2843869024dc82be2e246f41064 (diff) | |
parent | 66efc5a7e3061c3597ac43a8bb1026488d57e66b (diff) |
Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt index c6c9a9c10d7..3adaace328a 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt @@ -946,6 +946,13 @@ elevator_merged_fn called when a request in the scheduler has been scheduler for example, to reposition the request if its sorting order has changed. +elevator_allow_merge_fn called whenever the block layer determines + that a bio can be merged into an existing + request safely. The io scheduler may still + want to stop a merge at this point if it + results in some sort of conflict internally, + this hook allows it to do that. + elevator_dispatch_fn fills the dispatch queue with ready requests. I/O schedulers are free to postpone requests by not filling the dispatch queue unless @force |