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| author |   H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2010-04-29 16:53:17 -0700 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2010-04-29 16:53:17 -0700 |
| commit | d9c5841e22231e4e49fd0a1004164e6fce59b7a6 (patch) | |
| tree | e1f589c46b3ff79bbe7b1b2469f6362f94576da6 /Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt | |
| parent | x86: Fix LOCK_PREFIX_HERE for uniprocessor build (diff) | |
| parent | x86-64: Reduce SMP locks table size (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'x86/asm' into x86/atomic
Merge reason:
Conflict between LOCK_PREFIX_HERE and relative alternatives
pointers
Resolved Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt index e164403f60e1..f65274081c8d 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt @@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ size allowed by the hardware. nomerges (RW) ------------- -This enables the user to disable the lookup logic involved with IO merging -requests in the block layer. Merging may still occur through a direct -1-hit cache, since that comes for (almost) free. The IO scheduler will not -waste cycles doing tree/hash lookups for merges if nomerges is 1. Defaults -to 0, enabling all merges. +This enables the user to disable the lookup logic involved with IO +merging requests in the block layer. By default (0) all merges are +enabled. When set to 1 only simple one-hit merges will be tried. When +set to 2 no merge algorithms will be tried (including one-hit or more +complex tree/hash lookups). nr_requests (RW) ---------------- |