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| author | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2010-04-08 13:34:54 -0400 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2010-04-08 13:34:54 -0400 |
| commit | 0f2df9eac70423838a1f8d410fd3899ddd88317b (patch) | |
| tree | 0617f723320d83eca5cef9c964c001014e74213f /Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block | |
| parent | 8c11e4ab09ffb975a89802dde0e9aa52a53b8aa5 (diff) | |
| parent | 1144601118507f8b3b676a9a392584d216d3f2cc (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into merge
Conflicts:
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block index d2f90334bb93..4873c759d535 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block @@ -128,3 +128,17 @@ Description: preferred request size for workloads where sustained throughput is desired. If no optimal I/O size is reported this file contains 0. + +What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/nomerges +Date: January 2010 +Contact: +Description: + Standard I/O elevator operations include attempts to + merge contiguous I/Os. For known random I/O loads these + attempts will always fail and result in extra cycles + being spent in the kernel. This allows one to turn off + this behavior on one of two ways: When set to 1, complex + merge checks are disabled, but the simple one-shot merges + with the previous I/O request are enabled. When set to 2, + all merge tries are disabled. The default value is 0 - + which enables all types of merge tries. |