Signed-off-by: NAlberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Update the description of fifo_batch to match the current implementation,
and include a description of how to tune it.
Signed-off-by: NAaron Carroll <aaronc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>

Add Documentation/block/00-INDEX
Signed-off-by: NRob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

as-iosched.txt:
  o  Changed IO scheduler selection text to a reference to the
     switching-sched.txt file.

  o  Fixed typo: 'for up time...' -> 'for up to...'

  o  Added short description of the est_time file.

deadline-iosched.txt:
  o  Changed IO scheduler selection text to a reference to the
     switching-sched.txt file.

  o  Removed references to non-existent seek-cost and stream_unit.

  o  Fixed typo: 'write_starved' -> 'writes_starved'

switching-sched.txt:
  o  Added in boot-time argument to set the default IO scheduler. (From
     as-iosched.txt)

  o  Added in sysfs mount instructions. (From deadline-iosched.txt)
Signed-off-by: NAlan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Jens Axboe's old email address bounces.
Signed-off-by: NRob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

The newer glibc does not allow system calls to be made via _syscallN()
wrapper. They have to be made through syscall(). The ionice code used
the older interface. Correcting it to use syscall.
Signed-off-by: NDhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Every usage of rq_for_each_bio wraps a usage of
bio_for_each_segment, so these can be combined into
rq_for_each_segment.

We define "struct req_iterator" to hold the 'bio' and 'index' that
are needed for the double iteration.
Signed-off-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>

Various compile fixes by me...
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Some of the code has been gradually transitioned to using the proper
struct request_queue, but there's lots left. So do a full sweet of
the kernel and get rid of this typedef and replace its uses with
the proper type.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Documentation/block/barrier.txt is not in sync with the actual code: - blk_queue_ordered() no longer has a gfp_mask parameter - blk_queue_ordered_locked() no longer exists - sd_prepare_flush() looks slightly different
Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Acked-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Allow user space to determine if a disk supports Asynchronous Notification of
media changes.  This is done by adding a new sysfs file "capability_flags",
which is documented in (insert file name).  This sysfs file will export all
disk capabilities flags to user space.  We also define a new flag to define
the media change notification capability.
Signed-off-by: NKristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fix various typos in kernel docs and Kconfigs, 2.6.21-rc4.
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Documentation update, adding references to CFQ scheduler and to another
document about selecting IO Schedulers.
Signed-off-by: NFilipe Lautert <filipe@icewall.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some
misc words.
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some
+words starting with the letters 'U-Z'.

Looks like I made it through the alphabet...just in time to start over again
+too!  Maybe I can fit more profound fixes into the next round...?  Time will
+tell. :)
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Remove many duplicated words under Documentation/ and do other small
cleanups.

Examples:
        "and and" --> "and"
        "in in" --> "in"
        "the the" --> "the"
        "the the" --> "to the"
        ...
Signed-off-by: NPaolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letter 'S'.
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'Q'-'R'.
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'N'-'P'.
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'H'-'M'.
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'F'-'G'.
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. This patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'D'-'E'.
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. This patch addresses some
words starting with the letters 'B'-'C'.  There are also a few grammar fixes
thrown in for Randy. ;)
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

We added the ability to change a block device's IO elevator scheduler both
at kernel boot and on-the-fly, but we only documented the elevator= boot
parameter.  Add a quick how-to on doing it on the fly.
Signed-off-by: NValdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

The max_sectors has been split into max_hw_sectors and max_sectors for some
time. A patch to have blk_queue_max_sectors enforce this was sent by
me and it broke IDE. This patch updates the documentation.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

the ladder to the mainline.  Add it back.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

I couldn't find any docs explaining the contents of /sys/block/<dev>/stat,
so I wrote up the following.  I'm not completely sure it's accurate - Jens,
could you give a yea or nay on this?

In particular, the counts of read/write IOs and read/write sectors are
incremented in different places - it looks like they both increment as the
request is being finished, but I'm not completely sure of that.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Update documentation to match new barrier implementation.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

This patch removes all references to the bouncing address
rddunlap@osdl.org and one dead web page from the kernel.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>

Picked from the ubuntu-2.6 tree

The change in location for ll_rw_blk.c from drivers/block/ to block/ caused
failure to generate documentation.
Signed-off-by: NBen Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Updates biodoc to reflect changes in elevator API
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

Add ioprio documentation
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!