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| author | Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> | 2008-11-24 12:46:29 +0300 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2008-12-29 10:28:43 +0300 |
| commit | 42364690992e592c05f85c76fda4055820b48c1b (patch) | |
| tree | 2a5f0c62c4cd096bcab2057077ec870e04872113 /Documentation/block | |
| parent | c6a06f707cc29ea3a47588e4d2cd0bdcfa311a7d (diff) | |
| download | linux-42364690992e592c05f85c76fda4055820b48c1b.tar.xz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/block')
| -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 4dbb8be1c991..3c5434c83daf 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. |