From: Nikanth Karthikesan Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:46:29 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Documentation: remove reference to ll_rw_blk.c and moved drivers/block/elevator.c X-Git-Tag: v2.6.29-rc1~569^2~30 X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=42364690992e592c05f85c76fda4055820b48c1b;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git Documentation: remove reference to ll_rw_blk.c and moved drivers/block/elevator.c The drivers/block/ll_rw_block.c has been split and organized in the block/ directory, and also drivers/block/elevator.c has been moved to the block/ directory. Update Documentation/block/biodoc.txt accordingly Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt index 4dbb8be1c99..3c5434c83da 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt @@ -914,7 +914,7 @@ I/O scheduler, a.k.a. elevator, is implemented in two layers. Generic dispatch queue and specific I/O schedulers. Unless stated otherwise, elevator is used to refer to both parts and I/O scheduler to specific I/O schedulers. -Block layer implements generic dispatch queue in ll_rw_blk.c and elevator.c. +Block layer implements generic dispatch queue in block/*.c. The generic dispatch queue is responsible for properly ordering barrier requests, requeueing, handling non-fs requests and all other subtleties. @@ -926,8 +926,8 @@ be built inside the kernel. Each queue can choose different one and can also change to another one dynamically. A block layer call to the i/o scheduler follows the convention elv_xxx(). This -calls elevator_xxx_fn in the elevator switch (drivers/block/elevator.c). Oh, -xxx and xxx might not match exactly, but use your imagination. If an elevator +calls elevator_xxx_fn in the elevator switch (block/elevator.c). Oh, xxx +and xxx might not match exactly, but use your imagination. If an elevator doesn't implement a function, the switch does nothing or some minimal house keeping work.