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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/barrier.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt b/Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt index 6f47332c883d..e2a66f8143c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt | |||
@@ -99,8 +99,8 @@ contrast, many write requests may be dispatched to the disk controller | |||
99 | at a time during a write batch. It is this characteristic that can make | 99 | at a time during a write batch. It is this characteristic that can make |
100 | the anticipatory scheduler perform anomalously with controllers supporting | 100 | the anticipatory scheduler perform anomalously with controllers supporting |
101 | TCQ, or with hardware striped RAID devices. Setting the antic_expire | 101 | TCQ, or with hardware striped RAID devices. Setting the antic_expire |
102 | queue paramter (see below) to zero disables this behavior, and the anticipatory | 102 | queue parameter (see below) to zero disables this behavior, and the |
103 | scheduler behaves essentially like the deadline scheduler. | 103 | anticipatory scheduler behaves essentially like the deadline scheduler. |
104 | 104 | ||
105 | When read anticipation is enabled (antic_expire is not zero), reads | 105 | When read anticipation is enabled (antic_expire is not zero), reads |
106 | are dispatched to the disk controller one at a time. | 106 | are dispatched to the disk controller one at a time. |
diff --git a/Documentation/block/barrier.txt b/Documentation/block/barrier.txt index de3d88edb7f1..a272c3db8094 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/barrier.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/barrier.txt | |||
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ iii. Devices which have queue depth of 1. This is a degenerate case | |||
42 | of ii. Just keeping issue order suffices. Ancient SCSI | 42 | of ii. Just keeping issue order suffices. Ancient SCSI |
43 | controllers/drives and IDE drives are in this category. | 43 | controllers/drives and IDE drives are in this category. |
44 | 44 | ||
45 | 2. Forced flushing to physcial medium | 45 | 2. Forced flushing to physical medium |
46 | 46 | ||
47 | Again, if you're not gonna do synchronization with disk drives (dang, | 47 | Again, if you're not gonna do synchronization with disk drives (dang, |
48 | it sounds even more appealing now!), the reason you use I/O barriers | 48 | it sounds even more appealing now!), the reason you use I/O barriers |