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Ingo Molnar authored
Introduces two new /sys/block values: /sys/block/*/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb /sys/block/*/queue/max_sectors_kb max_hw_sectors_kb is the maximum that the driver can handle and is readonly. max_sectors_kb is the current max_sectors value and can be tuned by root. PAGE_SIZE granularity is enforced. It's all locking-safe and all affected layered drivers have been updated as well. The patch has been in testing for a couple of weeks already as part of the voluntary-preempt patches and it works just fine - people use it to reduce IDE IRQ handling latencies. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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