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diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt index 0fe01c805480..8e63831971d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt | |||
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ The following people helped with review comments and inputs for this | |||
31 | document: | 31 | document: |
32 | Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> | 32 | Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> |
33 | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> | 33 | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> |
34 | Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> | 34 | Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> |
35 | Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> | 35 | Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> |
36 | 36 | ||
37 | The following people helped with fixes/contributions to the bio patches | 37 | The following people helped with fixes/contributions to the bio patches |
@@ -263,14 +263,8 @@ A flag in the bio structure, BIO_BARRIER is used to identify a barrier i/o. | |||
263 | The generic i/o scheduler would make sure that it places the barrier request and | 263 | The generic i/o scheduler would make sure that it places the barrier request and |
264 | all other requests coming after it after all the previous requests in the | 264 | all other requests coming after it after all the previous requests in the |
265 | queue. Barriers may be implemented in different ways depending on the | 265 | queue. Barriers may be implemented in different ways depending on the |
266 | driver. A SCSI driver for example could make use of ordered tags to | 266 | driver. For more details regarding I/O barriers, please read barrier.txt |
267 | preserve the necessary ordering with a lower impact on throughput. For IDE | 267 | in this directory. |
268 | this might be two sync cache flush: a pre and post flush when encountering | ||
269 | a barrier write. | ||
270 | |||
271 | There is a provision for queues to indicate what kind of barriers they | ||
272 | can provide. This is as of yet unmerged, details will be added here once it | ||
273 | is in the kernel. | ||
274 | 268 | ||
275 | 1.2.2 Request Priority/Latency | 269 | 1.2.2 Request Priority/Latency |
276 | 270 | ||