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Jens Axboe
f11cbd74c5 Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.34 2010-02-22 13:48:51 +01:00
Alan D. Brunelle
488991e28e block: Added in stricter no merge semantics for block I/O
Updated 'nomerges' tunable to accept a value of '2' - indicating that _no_
merges at all are to be attempted (not even the simple one-hit cache).

The following table illustrates the additional benefit - 5 minute runs of
a random I/O load were applied to a dozen devices on a 16-way x86_64 system.

nomerges        Throughput      %System         Improvement (tput / %sys)
--------        ------------    -----------     -------------------------
0               12.45 MB/sec    0.669365609
1               12.50 MB/sec    0.641519199     0.40% / 2.71%
2               12.52 MB/sec    0.639849750     0.56% / 2.96%

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-01-29 09:04:08 +01:00
Kusanagi Kouichi
4207a152bc Documentation: Rename Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt
It seems that Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt was supposed to be renamed
to Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt.

Signed-off-by: Kusanagi Kouichi <slash@ac.auone-net.jp>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-02 10:09:44 -08:00
FUJITA Tomonori
1de6129f38 block: remove Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt
Commit 492af6350a removed
the AS IO scheduler, so remove its documentation too.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-18 12:37:48 +01:00
Andre Noll
61fd21670d Trivial typo fixes in Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt.
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-07-01 10:56:25 +02:00
Matt LaPlante
19f5946001 trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
Fix various typos in documentation txts.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
vibi sreenivasan
dbdc9dd342 Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
File Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt does not exist.
 Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt contains DMA Mapping details

Signed-off-by: vibi sreenivasan <vibi_sreenivasan@cms.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-06-02 14:52:32 +02:00
Jens Axboe
329007ce25 block: update biodoc.txt on plugging
We do per-device plugging, get rid of any references to tq_disk as that
has been dead since 2.6.5 or so.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-15 08:28:11 +02:00
Avishay Traeger
07e86f405a block: Repeated lines in switching-sched.txt
These lines appear in this file twice - removed one occurrence.

Signed-off-by: Avishay Traeger <avishay@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-03-26 11:01:28 +01:00
Jens Axboe
cbb5901b90 block: add text file detailing queue/ sysfs files
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-02-02 13:02:31 +01:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
7598909e3e Mark mandatory elevator functions in the biodoc.txt
biodoc.txt mentions that elevator functions marked with * are mandatory, but
no function is marked with *. Mark the 3 functions which should be
implemented by any io scheduler.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-30 12:34:37 +01:00
Randy Dunlap
5872fb94f8 Documentation: move DMA-mapping.txt to Doc/PCI/
Move DMA-mapping.txt to Documentation/PCI/.

DMA-mapping.txt was supposed to be moved from Documentation/ to
Documentation/PCI/.  The 00-INDEX files in those two directories
were updated, along with a few other text files, but the file
itself somehow escaped being moved, so move it and update more
text files and source files with its new location.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
cc:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-29 18:19:29 -08:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
4236469099 Documentation: remove reference to ll_rw_blk.c and moved drivers/block/elevator.c
The drivers/block/ll_rw_block.c has been split and organized in the block/
directory, and also drivers/block/elevator.c has been moved to the block/
directory. Update Documentation/block/biodoc.txt accordingly

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:43 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
d1b5726358 Merge branch 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
* 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
  Document panic_on_unrecovered_nmi sysctl
  Add a reference to paper to SubmittingPatches
  Add kerneldoc documentation for new printk format extensions
  Remove videobook.tmpl
  doc: Test-by?
  Add the development process document
  Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt: Fix section numbers
2008-10-16 12:18:16 -07:00
Alberto Bertogli
d86f4bc4bc Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt: Fix section numbers
Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-10-16 11:51:30 -06:00
Aaron Carroll
6a421c1dc9 block: update documentation for deadline fifo_batch tunable
Update the description of fifo_batch to match the current implementation,
and include a description of how to tune it.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Carroll <aaronc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:03 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen
c1c72b5994 block: Data integrity infrastructure documentation
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:13 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
c0d1f29534 DOCUMENTATION: Use newer DEFINE_SPINLOCK macro in docs.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
2008-04-21 22:44:50 +00:00
Rob Landley
8b6800fbce Add Documentation/block/00-INDEX
Add Documentation/block/00-INDEX

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-16 10:11:28 +02:00
Alan D. Brunelle
23c76983e2 Some IO scheduler cleanup in Documentation/block
as-iosched.txt:
  o  Changed IO scheduler selection text to a reference to the
     switching-sched.txt file.

  o  Fixed typo: 'for up time...' -> 'for up to...'

  o  Added short description of the est_time file.

deadline-iosched.txt:
  o  Changed IO scheduler selection text to a reference to the
     switching-sched.txt file.

  o  Removed references to non-existent seek-cost and stream_unit.

  o  Fixed typo: 'write_starved' -> 'writes_starved'

switching-sched.txt:
  o  Added in boot-time argument to set the default IO scheduler. (From
     as-iosched.txt)

  o  Added in sysfs mount instructions. (From deadline-iosched.txt)

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-16 09:59:55 +02:00
Rob Landley
26bbb29a2a Update Jens Axboe's email in Documentation/*
Jens Axboe's old email address bounces.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-16 09:59:55 +02:00
Dhaval Giani
3317fedba9 Corrections in Documentation/block/ioprio.txt
The newer glibc does not allow system calls to be made via _syscallN()
wrapper. They have to be made through syscall(). The ionice code used
the older interface. Correcting it to use syscall.

Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-10 09:25:57 +02:00
NeilBrown
5705f70217 Introduce rq_for_each_segment replacing rq_for_each_bio
Every usage of rq_for_each_bio wraps a usage of
bio_for_each_segment, so these can be combined into
rq_for_each_segment.

We define "struct req_iterator" to hold the 'bio' and 'index' that
are needed for the double iteration.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>

Various compile fixes by me...

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-10 09:25:56 +02:00
Jens Axboe
165125e1e4 [BLOCK] Get rid of request_queue_t typedef
Some of the code has been gradually transitioned to using the proper
struct request_queue, but there's lots left. So do a full sweet of
the kernel and get rid of this typedef and replace its uses with
the proper type.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-24 09:28:11 +02:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
c0613c1c94 Documentation/block/barrier.txt is not in sync with the actual code: - blk_queue_ordered() no longer has a gfp_mask parameter - blk_queue_ordered_locked() no longer exists - sd_prepare_flush() looks slightly different
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 13:43:34 +02:00
Kristen Carlson Accardi
86ce18d7b7 genhd: expose AN to user space
Allow user space to determine if a disk supports Asynchronous Notification of
media changes.  This is done by adding a new sysfs file "capability_flags",
which is documented in (insert file name).  This sysfs file will export all
disk capabilities flags to user space.  We also define a new flag to define
the media change notification capability.

Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:11 -07:00
Matt LaPlante
a982ac06b0 misc doc and kconfig typos
Fix various typos in kernel docs and Kconfigs, 2.6.21-rc4.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-09 08:58:15 +02:00
Jens Axboe
126ec9a676 [PATCH] block: document io scheduler allow_merge_fn hook
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-12-20 11:06:15 +01:00
Filipe
49033c8184 [PATCH] io/storage: Documentation update to as-iosched.txt
Documentation update, adding references to CFQ scheduler and to another
document about selecting IO Schedulers.

Signed-off-by: Filipe Lautert <filipe@icewall.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:32 -08:00
Matt LaPlante
5d3f083d8f Fix typos in /Documentation : Misc
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some
misc words.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 05:21:10 +01:00
Matt LaPlante
4ae0edc21b Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some
+words starting with the letters 'U-Z'.

Looks like I made it through the alphabet...just in time to start over again
+too!  Maybe I can fit more profound fixes into the next round...?  Time will
+tell. :)

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
Paolo Ornati
670e9f34ee Documentation: remove duplicated words
Remove many duplicated words under Documentation/ and do other small
cleanups.

Examples:
        "and and" --> "and"
        "in in" --> "in"
        "the the" --> "the"
        "the the" --> "to the"
        ...

Signed-off-by: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
Matt LaPlante
53cb47268e Fix typos in Documentation/: 'S'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letter 'S'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:55:17 +02:00
Matt LaPlante
d6bc8ac9e1 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'Q'-'R'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'Q'-'R'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:54:15 +02:00
Matt LaPlante
992caacf11 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'N'-'P'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'N'-'P'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:52:05 +02:00
Matt LaPlante
2fe0ae78c6 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'H'-'M'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'H'-'M'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:50:39 +02:00
Matt LaPlante
a2ffd27516 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'F'-'G'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'F'-'G'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:49:15 +02:00
Matt LaPlante
fff9289b21 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'D'-'E'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. This patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'D'-'E'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:47:42 +02:00
Matt LaPlante
6c28f2c0f2 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'B'-'C'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. This patch addresses some
words starting with the letters 'B'-'C'.  There are also a few grammar fixes
thrown in for Randy. ;)

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:46:31 +02:00
Valdis Kletnieks
73af994c7d [PATCH] Document online io scheduler switching
We added the ability to change a block device's IO elevator scheduler both
at kernel boot and on-the-fly, but we only documented the elevator= boot
parameter.  Add a quick how-to on doing it on the fly.

Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-20 13:04:36 +02:00
Mike Christie
28832e8337 [PATCH] update max_sectors documentation
The max_sectors has been split into max_hw_sectors and max_sectors for some
time. A patch to have blk_queue_max_sectors enforce this was sent by
me and it broke IDE. This patch updates the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-03-27 09:29:01 +02:00
Tejun Heo
5a22579137 barrier.txt got lost while the new barrier patchset was climbing up
the ladder to the mainline.  Add it back.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-16 09:45:58 +01:00
Andy Isaacson
37a327957e [PATCH] block/stat.txt
I couldn't find any docs explaining the contents of /sys/block/<dev>/stat,
so I wrote up the following.  I'm not completely sure it's accurate - Jens,
could you give a yea or nay on this?

In particular, the counts of read/write IOs and read/write sectors are
incremented in different places - it looks like they both increment as the
request is being finished, but I'm not completely sure of that.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:01 -08:00
Tejun Heo
ff5b8cf149 [BLOCK] I/O barrier documentation update
Update documentation to match new barrier implementation.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-06 09:58:37 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
f4b09ebc8b update the email address of Randy Dunlap
This patch removes all references to the bouncing address
rddunlap@osdl.org and one dead web page from the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
2006-01-03 13:37:51 +01:00
Ben Collins
1d193f4f11 [PATCH] Update location of ll_rw_blk.c in docs
Picked from the ubuntu-2.6 tree

The change in location for ll_rw_blk.c from drivers/block/ to block/ caused
failure to generate documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-15 08:59:20 -08:00
Tejun Heo
4c9f783640 [PATCH] 05/05 update biodoc to match new generic dispatch api
Updates biodoc to reflect changes in elevator API

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-10-28 08:45:47 +02:00
Jens Axboe
52a5e15f66 [PATCH] CFQ io scheduler, add ioprio documentation
Add ioprio documentation

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27 14:33:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00