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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-01-02 22:41:36 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-01-02 22:41:36 +0100 |
commit | 923a789b49c7269a0245d5af6afe486188d940df (patch) | |
tree | c3f168427372e64f7467a794f313416da5086ba0 /Documentation/block/biodoc.txt | |
parent | 103ceffb9501531f6931df6aebc11a05189201f0 (diff) | |
parent | b840d79631c882786925303c2b0f4fefc31845ed (diff) |
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/cleanups
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/reboot.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. |