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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Notes on the Generic Block Layer Rewrite in Linux 2.5
here might still be useful.
Notes Written on Jan 15, 2002:
+
- Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
- Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
@@ -172,8 +173,8 @@ Some new queue property settings:
New queue flags:
- QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER (see 3.2.2)
- QUEUE_FLAG_QUEUED (see 3.2.4)
+ - QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER (see 3.2.2)
+ - QUEUE_FLAG_QUEUED (see 3.2.4)
ii. High-mem i/o capabilities are now considered the default
@@ -478,7 +479,7 @@ With this multipage bio design:
- Splitting of an i/o request across multiple devices (as in the case of
lvm or raid) is achieved by cloning the bio (where the clone points to
the same bi_io_vec array, but with the index and size accordingly modified)
-- A linked list of bios is used as before for unrelated merges [*]_ - this
+- A linked list of bios is used as before for unrelated merges [#]_ - this
avoids reallocs and makes independent completions easier to handle.
- Code that traverses the req list can find all the segments of a bio
by using rq_for_each_segment. This handles the fact that a request
@@ -489,7 +490,7 @@ With this multipage bio design:
[TBD: Should preferably also have a bi_voffset and bi_vlen to avoid modifying
bi_offset an len fields]
-.. [*]
+.. [#]
unrelated merges -- a request ends up containing two or more bios that
didn't originate from the same place.