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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/blk-mq.rst | 4 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/block/blk-mq.rst b/Documentation/block/blk-mq.rst index a980d23af48c..d96118c73954 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/blk-mq.rst +++ b/Documentation/block/blk-mq.rst @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ queue, to be sent in the future, when the hardware is able. Software staging queues ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The block IO subsystem adds requests in the software staging queues +The block IO subsystem adds requests in the software staging queues (represented by struct blk_mq_ctx) in case that they weren't sent directly to the driver. A request is one or more BIOs. They arrived at the block layer through the data structure struct bio. The block layer @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ In order to indicate which request has been completed, every request is identified by an integer, ranging from 0 to the dispatch queue size. This tag is generated by the block layer and later reused by the device driver, removing the need to create a redundant identifier. When a request is completed in the -drive, the tag is sent back to the block layer to notify it of the finalization. +driver, the tag is sent back to the block layer to notify it of the finalization. This removes the need to do a linear search to find out which IO has been completed. |