Commit 7598909e authored by Nikanth Karthikesan's avatar Nikanth Karthikesan Committed by Jens Axboe
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Mark mandatory elevator functions in the biodoc.txt



biodoc.txt mentions that elevator functions marked with * are mandatory, but
no function is marked with *. Mark the 3 functions which should be
implemented by any io scheduler.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
parent a229fc61
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@@ -954,14 +954,14 @@ elevator_allow_merge_fn called whenever the block layer determines
				results in some sort of conflict internally,
				this hook allows it to do that.

elevator_dispatch_fn		fills the dispatch queue with ready requests.
elevator_dispatch_fn*		fills the dispatch queue with ready requests.
				I/O schedulers are free to postpone requests by
				not filling the dispatch queue unless @force
				is non-zero.  Once dispatched, I/O schedulers
				are not allowed to manipulate the requests -
				they belong to generic dispatch queue.

elevator_add_req_fn		called to add a new request into the scheduler
elevator_add_req_fn*		called to add a new request into the scheduler

elevator_queue_empty_fn		returns true if the merge queue is empty.
				Drivers shouldn't use this, but rather check
@@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ elevator_activate_req_fn Called when device driver first sees a request.
elevator_deactivate_req_fn	Called when device driver decides to delay
				a request by requeueing it.

elevator_init_fn
elevator_init_fn*
elevator_exit_fn		Allocate and free any elevator specific storage
				for a queue.