Thread (36 messages) 36 messages, 8 authors, 2012-05-14
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[PATCH v2 05/16] block: Documentation: add sysfs ABI for expedite_dmpg and expedite_swapin

From: Venkatraman S <hidden>
Date: 2012-05-03 14:23:04
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linux-mmc, linux-omap, lkml
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

Add description on the usage of expedite_dmpg and
expedite_swapin.

Signed-off-by: Venkatraman S <redacted>
---
 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
index c1eb41c..0fb9fef 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
@@ -206,3 +206,15 @@ Description:
 		when a discarded area is read the discard_zeroes_data
 		parameter will be set to one. Otherwise it will be 0 and
 		the result of reading a discarded area is undefined.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/expedite_demandpaging
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/expedite_swapin
+Date:		April 2012
+Contact:	Venkatraman S <svenkatr@ti.com>
+Description:
+		For latency improvements, some storage devices could
+		provide a mechanism for servicing demand paging and
+		swapin requests in a high priority manner. Setting
+		these flags to 1 would get the requests marked with
+		REQ_RW_DMPG or REQ_RW_SWAPIN to be moved to the front
+		of elevator queue.
-- 
1.7.10.rc2

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