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diff --git a/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt b/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt index c918b3a6022d..be08ffd1e9b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt @@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ you can do so by typing: read_expire (in ms) ----------- -The goal of the deadline io scheduler is to attempt to guarentee a start +The goal of the deadline io scheduler is to attempt to guarantee a start service time for a request. As we focus mainly on read latencies, this is tunable. When a read request first enters the io scheduler, it is assigned a deadline that is the current time + the read_expire value in units of -miliseconds. +milliseconds. write_expire (in ms) |