From 6c28f2c0f2054865d82b5a6b2164eac956f15c94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt LaPlante Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:46:31 +0200 Subject: Fix typos in Documentation/: 'B'-'C' 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: Matt LaPlante Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- Documentation/block/barrier.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/block') diff --git a/Documentation/block/barrier.txt b/Documentation/block/barrier.txt index 03971518b222..761073eae103 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/barrier.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/barrier.txt @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ of the following three ways. i. For devices which have queue depth greater than 1 (TCQ devices) and support ordered tags, block layer can just issue the barrier as an ordered request and the lower level driver, controller and drive -itself are responsible for making sure that the ordering contraint is +itself are responsible for making sure that the ordering constraint is met. Most modern SCSI controllers/drives should support this. NOTE: SCSI ordered tag isn't currently used due to limitation in the -- cgit v1.2.2 From fff9289b219f48cb2296714fea3d71f516991f9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt LaPlante Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:47:42 +0200 Subject: Fix typos in Documentation/: 'D'-'E' This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. This patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'D'-'E'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- Documentation/block/biodoc.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/block') diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt index f989a9e839b4..3646a0aaea82 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt @@ -1203,6 +1203,6 @@ temporarily map a bio into the virtual address space. and Linus' comments - Jan 2001) 9.2 Discussions about kiobuf and bh design on lkml between sct, linus, alan et al - Feb-March 2001 (many of the initial thoughts that led to bio were -brought up in this discusion thread) +brought up in this discussion thread) 9.3 Discussions on mempool on lkml - Dec 2001. -- cgit v1.2.2 From a2ffd2751683f4275d4d1aa5ce37e5a6a1ae21df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt LaPlante Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:49:15 +0200 Subject: Fix typos in Documentation/: 'F'-'G' This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'F'-'G'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- Documentation/block/barrier.txt | 2 +- Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/block') diff --git a/Documentation/block/barrier.txt b/Documentation/block/barrier.txt index 761073eae103..de3d88edb7f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/barrier.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/barrier.txt @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ There are four cases, i. No write-back cache. Keeping requests ordered is enough. ii. Write-back cache but no flush operation. There's no way to -gurantee physical-medium commit order. This kind of devices can't to +guarantee physical-medium commit order. This kind of devices can't to I/O barriers. iii. Write-back cache and flush operation but no FUA (forced unit diff --git a/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt b/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt index c918b3a6022d..672c06bcae8b 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ you can do so by typing: read_expire (in ms) ----------- -The goal of the deadline io scheduler is to attempt to guarentee a start +The goal of the deadline io scheduler is to attempt to guarantee a start service time for a request. As we focus mainly on read latencies, this is tunable. When a read request first enters the io scheduler, it is assigned a deadline that is the current time + the read_expire value in units of -- cgit v1.2.2 From 2fe0ae78c6975d6fa2fc0c84f2b8944543054105 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt LaPlante Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:50:39 +0200 Subject: Fix typos in Documentation/: 'H'-'M' This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'H'-'M'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/block') diff --git a/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt b/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt index 672c06bcae8b..be08ffd1e9b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The goal of the deadline io scheduler is to attempt to guarantee a start service time for a request. As we focus mainly on read latencies, this is tunable. When a read request first enters the io scheduler, it is assigned a deadline that is the current time + the read_expire value in units of -miliseconds. +milliseconds. write_expire (in ms) -- cgit v1.2.2 From 992caacf1141b31e94540eb31e0540e3da3a5e25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt LaPlante Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:52:05 +0200 Subject: Fix typos in Documentation/: 'N'-'P' This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'N'-'P'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/block/barrier.txt | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/block') 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 at a time during a write batch. It is this characteristic that can make the anticipatory scheduler perform anomalously with controllers supporting TCQ, or with hardware striped RAID devices. Setting the antic_expire -queue paramter (see below) to zero disables this behavior, and the anticipatory -scheduler behaves essentially like the deadline scheduler. +queue parameter (see below) to zero disables this behavior, and the +anticipatory scheduler behaves essentially like the deadline scheduler. When read anticipation is enabled (antic_expire is not zero), reads 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 of ii. Just keeping issue order suffices. Ancient SCSI controllers/drives and IDE drives are in this category. -2. Forced flushing to physcial medium +2. Forced flushing to physical medium Again, if you're not gonna do synchronization with disk drives (dang, it sounds even more appealing now!), the reason you use I/O barriers -- cgit v1.2.2 From d6bc8ac9e13e466e844313b590fbc49f7f1abdea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt LaPlante Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:54:15 +0200 Subject: Fix typos in Documentation/: 'Q'-'R' This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'Q'-'R'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- Documentation/block/biodoc.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/block') diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt index 3646a0aaea82..c41a3e1b4b39 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt @@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ all the outstanding requests. There's a third helper to do that: blk_queue_invalidate_tags(request_queue_t *q) - Clear the internal block tag queue and readd all the pending requests + Clear the internal block tag queue and re-add all the pending requests to the request queue. The driver will receive them again on the next request_fn run, just like it did the first time it encountered them. -- cgit v1.2.2 From 53cb47268e6b38180d9f253527135e1c69c5d310 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt LaPlante Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:55:17 +0200 Subject: Fix typos in Documentation/: 'S' This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letter 'S'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante Acked-by: Alan Cox Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- Documentation/block/biodoc.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/block') diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt index c41a3e1b4b39..e2f7dc6069c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt @@ -890,7 +890,7 @@ Aside: Kvec i/o: - Ben LaHaise's aio code uses a slighly different structure instead + Ben LaHaise's aio code uses a slightly different structure instead of kiobufs, called a kvec_cb. This contains an array of tuples (very much like the networking code), together with a callback function and data pointer. This is embedded into a brw_cb structure when passed @@ -988,7 +988,7 @@ elevator_exit_fn Allocate and free any elevator specific storage for a queue. 4.2 Request flows seen by I/O schedulers -All requests seens by I/O schedulers strictly follow one of the following three +All requests seen by I/O schedulers strictly follow one of the following three flows. set_req_fn -> -- cgit v1.2.2 From 670e9f34ee3c7e052514c85014d2fdd99b672cdc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Ornati Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:57:56 +0200 Subject: Documentation: remove duplicated words 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: Paolo Ornati Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- Documentation/block/biodoc.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/block') diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt index e2f7dc6069c9..34bf8f60d8f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ Some new queue property settings: Sets two variables that limit the size of the request. - The request queue's max_sectors, which is a soft size in - in units of 512 byte sectors, and could be dynamically varied + units of 512 byte sectors, and could be dynamically varied by the core kernel. - The request queue's max_hw_sectors, which is a hard limit -- cgit v1.2.2