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| author | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2008-07-03 16:24:06 -0400 |
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| committer | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2008-07-03 16:24:06 -0400 |
| commit | e86322f611eef95aafaf726fd3965e5b211f1985 (patch) | |
| tree | 28547e26df4fc6ae671dc8cc6912a53717e4db08 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | b001a1b6aa960949a24c2cdc28257dfcc9428d74 (diff) | |
| parent | 8948896c9e098c6fd31a6a698a598a7cbd7fa40e (diff) | |
| download | linux-e86322f611eef95aafaf726fd3965e5b211f1985.tar.bz2 | |
Merge branch 'for-bfields' of git://linux-nfs.org/~tomtucker/xprt-switch-2.6 into for-2.6.27
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt | 1 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt index 560f88dc7090..0c5086db8352 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt @@ -139,8 +139,16 @@ commit=nrsec (*) Ext4 can be told to sync all its data and metadata Setting it to very large values will improve performance. -barrier=1 This enables/disables barriers. barrier=0 disables - it, barrier=1 enables it. +barrier=<0|1(*)> This enables/disables the use of write barriers in + the jbd code. barrier=0 disables, barrier=1 enables. + This also requires an IO stack which can support + barriers, and if jbd gets an error on a barrier + write, it will disable again with a warning. + Write barriers enforce proper on-disk ordering + of journal commits, making volatile disk write caches + safe to use, at some performance penalty. If + your disks are battery-backed in one way or another, + disabling barriers may safely improve performance. orlov (*) This enables the new Orlov block allocator. It is enabled by default. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt index 5daa2aaec2c5..68ef48839c04 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ files, each with their own function. local_cpus nearby CPU mask (cpumask, ro) resource PCI resource host addresses (ascii, ro) resource0..N PCI resource N, if present (binary, mmap) + resource0_wc..N_wc PCI WC map resource N, if prefetchable (binary, mmap) rom PCI ROM resource, if present (binary, ro) subsystem_device PCI subsystem device (ascii, ro) subsystem_vendor PCI subsystem vendor (ascii, ro) |