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| author | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2011-07-28 15:25:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2011-07-28 15:25:46 +0000 |
| commit | 6124a4e430b64d1577438c8648c59e996d02e73e (patch) | |
| tree | 49cfafad785d1c9e403a5b0d755298b9af2c260f /Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt | |
| parent | 8e267f3da5f117d2f1316cf6ddf740f93f1c73aa (diff) | |
| parent | 580975d7f48d7d047e22bb0f42adf7557801d8d4 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'imx/dt' into next/dt
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diff --git a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt index f65274081c8d..d8147b336c35 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt @@ -45,9 +45,13 @@ device. rq_affinity (RW) ---------------- -If this option is enabled, the block layer will migrate request completions -to the CPU that originally submitted the request. For some workloads -this provides a significant reduction in CPU cycles due to caching effects. +If this option is '1', the block layer will migrate request completions to the +cpu "group" that originally submitted the request. For some workloads this +provides a significant reduction in CPU cycles due to caching effects. + +For storage configurations that need to maximize distribution of completion +processing setting this option to '2' forces the completion to run on the +requesting cpu (bypassing the "group" aggregation logic). scheduler (RW) -------------- |