kernel/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt, branch linux-rolling-stable

docs: block: convert to ReST

2019-07-15T12:20:27Z

Rename the block documentation files to ReST, add an index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html output via the Sphinx build system. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

block, documentation: Document discard_zeroes_data, fua, max_discard_segments and write_zeroes_max_bytes

2019-06-29T15:38:05Z

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block, documentation: Explain the word 'segments'

2019-06-29T15:38:03Z

Several block layer users who are not kernel developers do not know that the word 'segment' refers to an element in a DMA scatter/gather list. Make the block layer documentation easier to understand by stating explicitly what the word 'segment' stands for. Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block, documentation: Sort queue sysfs attribute names alphabetically

2019-06-29T15:38:02Z

Commit f9824952ee1c ("block: update sysfs documentation") # v5.0 broke the alphabetical order of the sysfs attribute names. List queue sysfs attribute names alphabetically. Cc: Damien Le Moal Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block, documentation: Fix wbt_lat_usec documentation

2019-06-29T15:38:01Z

Fix the spelling of the wbt_lat_usec sysfs attribute. Fixes: 87760e5eef35 ("block: hook up writeback throttling") # v4.10. Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add documentation for io_timeout

2019-01-05T02:19:51Z

Add documentation for /sys/block//queue/io_timeout. Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche Signed-off-by: Weiping Zhang Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: update sysfs documentation

2018-12-17T02:53:06Z

Add the description of the zoned, nr_zones and chunk_sectors sysfs queue attributes to Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt. The description of the zoned and chunk_sector attributes are mostly copied from ABI/testing/sysfs-block (added a typo fix). While at it, also fix a typo in the description of the io_poll_delay attribute. nr_zones description is also added to ABI/testing/sysfs-block and contact email address updated for the zoned attribute. Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove the discard_zeroes_data flag

2017-04-08T17:25:38Z

Now that we use the proper REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES operation everywhere we can kill this hack. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk-throttle: make throtl_slice tunable

2017-03-28T14:02:20Z

throtl_slice is important for blk-throttling. It's called slice internally but it really is a time window blk-throttling samples data. blk-throttling will make decision based on the samplings. An example is bandwidth measurement. A cgroup's bandwidth is measured in the time interval of throtl_slice. A small throtl_slice meanse cgroups have smoother throughput but burn more CPUs. It has 100ms default value, which is not appropriate for all disks. A fast SSD can dispatch a lot of IOs in 100ms. This patch makes it tunable. Since throtl_slice isn't a time slice, the sysfs name 'throttle_sample_time' reflects its character better. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: fix up io_poll documentation

2017-01-03T23:47:13Z

/sys/block//queue/io_poll is a boolean. Fix the docs. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe