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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DMA-API.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cdrom/ide-cd | 3 |
4 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt index d8b63d1..b8e8646 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ With scatterlists, you use the resulting mapping like this: int i, count = dma_map_sg(dev, sglist, nents, direction); struct scatterlist *sg; - for (i = 0, sg = sglist; i < count; i++, sg++) { + for_each_sg(sglist, sg, count, i) { hw_address[i] = sg_dma_address(sg); hw_len[i] = sg_dma_len(sg); } diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl index b7b1482..f5696ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl @@ -364,6 +364,10 @@ X!Edrivers/pnp/system.c !Eblock/blk-barrier.c !Eblock/blk-tag.c !Iblock/blk-tag.c +!Eblock/blk-integrity.c +!Iblock/blktrace.c +!Iblock/genhd.c +!Eblock/genhd.c </chapter> <chapter id="chrdev"> diff --git a/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt b/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt index c23cab1..7257676 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt @@ -30,12 +30,18 @@ write_expire (in ms) Similar to read_expire mentioned above, but for writes. -fifo_batch +fifo_batch (number of requests) ---------- -When a read request expires its deadline, we must move some requests from -the sorted io scheduler list to the block device dispatch queue. fifo_batch -controls how many requests we move. +Requests are grouped into ``batches'' of a particular data direction (read or +write) which are serviced in increasing sector order. To limit extra seeking, +deadline expiries are only checked between batches. fifo_batch controls the +maximum number of requests per batch. + +This parameter tunes the balance between per-request latency and aggregate +throughput. When low latency is the primary concern, smaller is better (where +a value of 1 yields first-come first-served behaviour). Increasing fifo_batch +generally improves throughput, at the cost of latency variation. writes_starved (number of dispatches) diff --git a/Documentation/cdrom/ide-cd b/Documentation/cdrom/ide-cd index 91c0dcc..2c558cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/cdrom/ide-cd +++ b/Documentation/cdrom/ide-cd @@ -145,8 +145,7 @@ useful for reading photocds. To play an audio CD, you should first unmount and remove any data CDROM. Any of the CDROM player programs should then work (workman, -workbone, cdplayer, etc.). Lacking anything else, you could use the -cdtester program in Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd. +workbone, cdplayer, etc.). On a few drives, you can read digital audio directly using a program such as cdda2wav. The only types of drive which I've heard support |