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From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] block: update documentation for blk_rq_timeout()
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:12:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201123081216.64025-1-jwi@linux.ibm.com> (raw)

Requests don't have their own timers anymore, they share the queue's
timer instead.

Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
---
 block/blk-timeout.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-timeout.c b/block/blk-timeout.c
index 1b8de0417fc1..61430575cb58 100644
--- a/block/blk-timeout.c
+++ b/block/blk-timeout.c
@@ -122,8 +122,8 @@ unsigned long blk_rq_timeout(unsigned long timeout)
  * @req:	request that is about to start running.
  *
  * Notes:
- *    Each request has its own timer, and as it is added to the queue, we
- *    set up the timer. When the request completes, we cancel the timer.
+ *    Each request has its own timeout. As a request is added to the queue,
+ *    we start/adjust the queue's timer to keep track of the earliest timeout.
  */
 void blk_add_timer(struct request *req)
 {
-- 
2.17.1


             reply	other threads:[~2020-11-23  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-23  8:12 Julian Wiedmann [this message]
2020-11-23  8:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] block: fix kerneldoc typos Julian Wiedmann

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