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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/biodoc.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt index 6b972b287795..5aabc08de811 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt @@ -942,7 +942,11 @@ elevator_allow_merge_fn called whenever the block layer determines request safely. The io scheduler may still want to stop a merge at this point if it results in some sort of conflict internally, - this hook allows it to do that. + this hook allows it to do that. Note however + that two *requests* can still be merged at later + time. Currently the io scheduler has no way to + prevent that. It can only learn about the fact + from elevator_merge_req_fn callback. elevator_dispatch_fn* fills the dispatch queue with ready requests. I/O schedulers are free to postpone requests by |