linux-kernel - [PATCH] (Documentation) append more detail explanation to the I/O scheduler API.

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Message-ID: <20091122121802.GA4646@ns.ariel-networksc.om>
Date:	Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:18:02 +0900
From:	Hiroyasu OHYAMA <ohyama_sec@...el-networks.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] (Documentation) append more detail explanation to the I/O scheduler API.

 From: Hiroyasu OHYAMA

 Signed-off-by: Hiroyasu OHYAMA <ohyama_sec@...el-networks.com>

 I'm sorry, I realized that the patch which I send before is incorrect format
 to send it to lkml.
 So I resend it.

 This patch append more detail explanation to the Documentation of API of I/O scheduler.

 Thank you for reading.

---
diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
index 8d2158a..7c04f54 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
@@ -935,7 +935,12 @@ keeping work.
 4.1. I/O scheduler API

  The functions an elevator may implement are: (* are mandatory)
-elevator_merge_fn    called to query requests for merge with a bio
+elevator_merge_fn    called to query requests for merge with a bio. This method
+       have two following works. One is to indicate how to merge request
+       with bio from head or tail. This function doesn't merge them actually,
+       but just indicate direction for merging from head or tail, or that
+       there is no request with that bio can merge. Another work is to get
+       the request object which is merged, if the bio can do.

 elevator_merge_req_fn    called when two requests get merged. the one
         which gets merged into the other one will be


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