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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/biodoc.txt | 7 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt index c6c9a9c10d7f..3adaace328a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt @@ -946,6 +946,13 @@ elevator_merged_fn called when a request in the scheduler has been scheduler for example, to reposition the request if its sorting order has changed. +elevator_allow_merge_fn called whenever the block layer determines + that a bio can be merged into an existing + request safely. The io scheduler may still + want to stop a merge at this point if it + results in some sort of conflict internally, + this hook allows it to do that. + elevator_dispatch_fn fills the dispatch queue with ready requests. I/O schedulers are free to postpone requests by not filling the dispatch queue unless @force |