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2011-11-04Documentation: drop as block elevator reference in switching-sched.txtWang Sheng-Hui1-2/+2
Remove 'as' for as is no longer supported, and we can not use 'elevator=as' any more. Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-11Documentation: remove anticipatory scheduler infoRandy Dunlap1-4/+4
Remove anticipatory block I/O scheduler info from Documentation/ since the code has been deleted. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Reported-by: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2009-03-26block: Repeated lines in switching-sched.txtAvishay Traeger1-6/+0
These lines appear in this file twice - removed one occurrence. Signed-off-by: Avishay Traeger <avishay@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-16Some IO scheduler cleanup in Documentation/blockAlan D. Brunelle1-0/+21
as-iosched.txt: o Changed IO scheduler selection text to a reference to the switching-sched.txt file. o Fixed typo: 'for up time...' -> 'for up to...' o Added short description of the est_time file. deadline-iosched.txt: o Changed IO scheduler selection text to a reference to the switching-sched.txt file. o Removed references to non-existent seek-cost and stream_unit. o Fixed typo: 'write_starved' -> 'writes_starved' switching-sched.txt: o Added in boot-time argument to set the default IO scheduler. (From as-iosched.txt) o Added in sysfs mount instructions. (From deadline-iosched.txt) Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-04-20[PATCH] Document online io scheduler switchingValdis Kletnieks1-0/+22
We added the ability to change a block device's IO elevator scheduler both at kernel boot and on-the-fly, but we only documented the elevator= boot parameter. Add a quick how-to on doing it on the fly. Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>