Add usage explanation for a shared_tags, introduced by commit:
82f402fefa ("null_blk: add support for shared tags")
Signed-off-by: Minwoo Im <minwoo.im.dev@gmail.com>
Reworded slightly.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
null_blk.c has initial value of
(1) nr_devices as 1.
(2) completion_nsec as 10,000ns, not 10.000ns.
documentation should be updated for fixes above.
Signed-off-by: Minwoo Im <minwoo.im.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This parameter provide an option to disable io scheduler when nullb*
in multi-queue mode.
Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@didichuxing.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
update the range of submits_queues, and correct usage hints.
Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@didichuxing.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
If CONFIG_NVM is disabled, loading null_block module with use_lightnvm=1
fails. But there are no messages and documents related to the failure.
Add the appropriate error message.
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Massaged the text a bit.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Add support for registering as a LightNVM device. This allows us to
evaluate the performance of the LightNVM subsystem.
In /drivers/Makefile, LightNVM is moved above block device drivers
to make sure that the LightNVM media managers have been initialized
before drivers under /drivers/block are initialized.
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Fix by Jens Axboe to remove unneeded slab cache and the following
memory leak.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The defaults for the module is to instantiate itself with blk-mq and a
submit queue for each CPU node in the system.
To save resources, initialize instead with a single submit queue.
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Randy Dunlap reported a couple of grammar errors and unfortunate usages of
socket/node/core.
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>