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| author | Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> | 2010-10-28 00:15:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> | 2010-10-28 00:15:57 +0200 |
| commit | b74b953b998bcc2db91b694446f3a2619ec32de6 (patch) | |
| tree | 6ce24caabd730f6ae9287ed0676ec32e6ff31e9d /Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt | |
| parent | abb438526201c6a79949ad45375c051b6681c253 (diff) | |
| parent | f6f94e2ab1b33f0082ac22d71f66385a60d8157f (diff) | |
Merge commit 'v2.6.36' into kbuild/misc
Update to be able to fix a recent change to scripts/basic/docproc.c
(commit eda603f).
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt index e164403f60e..f65274081c8 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt @@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ size allowed by the hardware. nomerges (RW) ------------- -This enables the user to disable the lookup logic involved with IO merging -requests in the block layer. Merging may still occur through a direct -1-hit cache, since that comes for (almost) free. The IO scheduler will not -waste cycles doing tree/hash lookups for merges if nomerges is 1. Defaults -to 0, enabling all merges. +This enables the user to disable the lookup logic involved with IO +merging requests in the block layer. By default (0) all merges are +enabled. When set to 1 only simple one-hit merges will be tried. When +set to 2 no merge algorithms will be tried (including one-hit or more +complex tree/hash lookups). nr_requests (RW) ---------------- |