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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/biodoc.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/blk-mq.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/stat.rst | 2 |
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.rst b/Documentation/block/biodoc.rst index 1d4d71e391af..2098477851a4 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.rst +++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.rst @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ a virtual address mapping (unlike the earlier scheme of virtual address do not have a corresponding kernel virtual address space mapping) and low-memory pages. -Note: Please refer to :doc:`/core-api/dma-api-howto` for a discussion +Note: Please refer to Documentation/core-api/dma-api-howto.rst for a discussion on PCI high mem DMA aspects and mapping of scatter gather lists, and support for 64 bit PCI. diff --git a/Documentation/block/blk-mq.rst b/Documentation/block/blk-mq.rst index a980d23af48c..d96118c73954 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/blk-mq.rst +++ b/Documentation/block/blk-mq.rst @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ queue, to be sent in the future, when the hardware is able. Software staging queues ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The block IO subsystem adds requests in the software staging queues +The block IO subsystem adds requests in the software staging queues (represented by struct blk_mq_ctx) in case that they weren't sent directly to the driver. A request is one or more BIOs. They arrived at the block layer through the data structure struct bio. The block layer @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ In order to indicate which request has been completed, every request is identified by an integer, ranging from 0 to the dispatch queue size. This tag is generated by the block layer and later reused by the device driver, removing the need to create a redundant identifier. When a request is completed in the -drive, the tag is sent back to the block layer to notify it of the finalization. +driver, the tag is sent back to the block layer to notify it of the finalization. This removes the need to do a linear search to find out which IO has been completed. diff --git a/Documentation/block/stat.rst b/Documentation/block/stat.rst index 77311335c08b..a1cd9db2058f 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/stat.rst +++ b/Documentation/block/stat.rst @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ A. each, it would be impossible to guarantee that a set of readings represent a single point in time. -The stat file consists of a single line of text containing 11 decimal +The stat file consists of a single line of text containing 17 decimal values separated by whitespace. The fields are summarized in the following table, and described in more detail below. |