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diff --git a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt index dce25d848d92..2a3904030dea 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt @@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ add_random (RW) This file allows to turn off the disk entropy contribution. Default value of this file is '1'(on). +dax (RO) +-------- +This file indicates whether the device supports Direct Access (DAX), +used by CPU-addressable storage to bypass the pagecache. It shows '1' +if true, '0' if not. + discard_granularity (RO) ----------------------- This shows the size of internal allocation of the device in bytes, if @@ -46,6 +52,12 @@ hw_sector_size (RO) ------------------- This is the hardware sector size of the device, in bytes. +io_poll (RW) +------------ +When read, this file shows the total number of block IO polls and how +many returned success. Writing '0' to this file will disable polling +for this device. Writing any non-zero value will enable this feature. + iostats (RW) ------------- This file is used to control (on/off) the iostats accounting of the @@ -53,7 +65,7 @@ disk. logical_block_size (RO) ----------------------- -This is the logcal block size of the device, in bytes. +This is the logical block size of the device, in bytes. max_hw_sectors_kb (RO) ---------------------- @@ -151,5 +163,11 @@ device state. This means that it might not be safe to toggle the setting from "write back" to "write through", since that will also eliminate cache flushes issued by the kernel. +write_same_max_bytes (RO) +------------------------- +This is the number of bytes the device can write in a single write-same +command. A value of '0' means write-same is not supported by this +device. + Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>, February 2009 |