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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/barrier.txt | 16 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl index 38f88b6ae40..8c5698a8c2e 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl @@ -643,4 +643,15 @@ X!Idrivers/video/console/fonts.c !Edrivers/spi/spi.c </chapter> + <chapter id="splice"> + <title>splice API</title> + <para>) + splice is a method for moving blocks of data around inside the + kernel, without continually transferring it between the kernel + and user space. + </para> +!Iinclude/linux/splice.h +!Ffs/splice.c + </chapter> + </book> diff --git a/Documentation/block/barrier.txt b/Documentation/block/barrier.txt index a272c3db809..7d279f2f5bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/barrier.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/barrier.txt @@ -82,23 +82,12 @@ including draining and flushing. typedef void (prepare_flush_fn)(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq); int blk_queue_ordered(request_queue_t *q, unsigned ordered, - prepare_flush_fn *prepare_flush_fn, - unsigned gfp_mask); - -int blk_queue_ordered_locked(request_queue_t *q, unsigned ordered, - prepare_flush_fn *prepare_flush_fn, - unsigned gfp_mask); - -The only difference between the two functions is whether or not the -caller is holding q->queue_lock on entry. The latter expects the -caller is holding the lock. + prepare_flush_fn *prepare_flush_fn); @q : the queue in question @ordered : the ordered mode the driver/device supports @prepare_flush_fn : this function should prepare @rq such that it flushes cache to physical medium when executed -@gfp_mask : gfp_mask used when allocating data structures - for ordered processing For example, SCSI disk driver's prepare_flush_fn looks like the following. @@ -106,9 +95,10 @@ following. static void sd_prepare_flush(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq) { memset(rq->cmd, 0, sizeof(rq->cmd)); - rq->flags |= REQ_BLOCK_PC; + rq->cmd_type = REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC; rq->timeout = SD_TIMEOUT; rq->cmd[0] = SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE; + rq->cmd_len = 10; } The following seven ordered modes are supported. The following table |