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1Queue sysfs files
2=================
3
4This text file will detail the queue files that are located in the sysfs tree
5for each block device. Note that stacked devices typically do not export
6any settings, since their queue merely functions are a remapping target.
7These files are the ones found in the /sys/block/xxx/queue/ directory.
8
9Files denoted with a RO postfix are readonly and the RW postfix means
10read-write.
11
12hw_sector_size (RO)
13-------------------
14This is the hardware sector size of the device, in bytes.
15
16max_hw_sectors_kb (RO)
17----------------------
18This is the maximum number of kilobytes supported in a single data transfer.
19
20max_sectors_kb (RW)
21-------------------
22This is the maximum number of kilobytes that the block layer will allow
23for a filesystem request. Must be smaller than or equal to the maximum
24size allowed by the hardware.
25
26nomerges (RW)
27-------------
28This enables the user to disable the lookup logic involved with IO
29merging requests in the block layer. By default (0) all merges are
30enabled. When set to 1 only simple one-hit merges will be tried. When
31set to 2 no merge algorithms will be tried (including one-hit or more
32complex tree/hash lookups).
33
34nr_requests (RW)
35----------------
36This controls how many requests may be allocated in the block layer for
37read or write requests. Note that the total allocated number may be twice
38this amount, since it applies only to reads or writes (not the accumulated
39sum).
40
41read_ahead_kb (RW)
42------------------
43Maximum number of kilobytes to read-ahead for filesystems on this block
44device.
45
46rq_affinity (RW)
47----------------
48If this option is '1', the block layer will migrate request completions to the
49cpu "group" that originally submitted the request. For some workloads this
50provides a significant reduction in CPU cycles due to caching effects.
51
52For storage configurations that need to maximize distribution of completion
53processing setting this option to '2' forces the completion to run on the
54requesting cpu (bypassing the "group" aggregation logic).
55
56scheduler (RW)
57--------------
58When read, this file will display the current and available IO schedulers
59for this block device. The currently active IO scheduler will be enclosed
60in [] brackets. Writing an IO scheduler name to this file will switch
61control of this block device to that new IO scheduler. Note that writing
62an IO scheduler name to this file will attempt to load that IO scheduler
63module, if it isn't already present in the system.
64
65
66
67Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>, February 2009