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| author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2011-04-26 10:22:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2011-04-26 10:22:59 +0200 |
| commit | 07f9479a40cc778bc1462ada11f95b01360ae4ff (patch) | |
| tree | 0676cf38df3844004bb3ebfd99dfa67a4a8998f5 /Documentation/block/biodoc.txt | |
| parent | 9d5e6bdb3013acfb311ab407eeca0b6a6a3dedbf (diff) | |
| parent | cd2e49e90f1cae7726c9a2c54488d881d7f1cd1c (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Fast-forwarded to current state of Linus' tree as there are patches to be
applied for files that didn't exist on the old branch.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/block/biodoc.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/biodoc.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt index b9a83dd2473..c6d84cfd2f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt @@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ The scatter gather list is in the form of an array of <page, offset, len> entries with their corresponding dma address mappings filled in at the appropriate time. As an optimization, contiguous physical pages can be covered by a single entry where <page> refers to the first page and <len> -covers the range of pages (upto 16 contiguous pages could be covered this +covers the range of pages (up to 16 contiguous pages could be covered this way). There is a helper routine (blk_rq_map_sg) which drivers can use to build the sg list. @@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ struct request { . int tag; /* command tag associated with request */ void *special; /* same as before */ - char *buffer; /* valid only for low memory buffers upto + char *buffer; /* valid only for low memory buffers up to current_nr_sectors */ . . @@ -963,11 +963,6 @@ elevator_dispatch_fn* fills the dispatch queue with ready requests. elevator_add_req_fn* called to add a new request into the scheduler -elevator_queue_empty_fn returns true if the merge queue is empty. - Drivers shouldn't use this, but rather check - if elv_next_request is NULL (without losing the - request if one exists!) - elevator_former_req_fn elevator_latter_req_fn These return the request before or after the one specified in disk sort order. Used by the |