From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] docs: sysfs-block: document virt_boundary_mask
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2021 14:59:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac1cefeb-d0f1-3cfc-ffb4-e5ac37b46bcf@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YbEz4pq2xMfAufwJ@gmail.com>
On 12/8/21 2:38 PM, Eric Biggers wrote:
> Sure, I meant for it to be talking about the memory addresses. How about this:
>
> [RO] This file shows the I/O segment memory alignment mask for
> the block device. I/O requests to this device will be split
> between segments wherever either the memory address of the end
> of the previous segment or the memory address of the beginning
> of the current segment is not aligned to virt_boundary_mask + 1
> bytes.
That also sounds good to me.
Thanks,
Bart.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-08 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-08 0:56 [PATCH v2 0/8] docs: consolidate sysfs-block into Documentation/ABI/ Eric Biggers
2021-12-08 0:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] docs: sysfs-block: move to stable directory Eric Biggers
2021-12-08 0:56 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] docs: sysfs-block: sort alphabetically Eric Biggers
2021-12-08 0:56 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] docs: sysfs-block: add contact for nomerges Eric Biggers
2021-12-08 0:56 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] docs: sysfs-block: fill in missing documentation from queue-sysfs.rst Eric Biggers
2021-12-08 0:56 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] docs: sysfs-block: document stable_writes Eric Biggers
2021-12-08 18:01 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-12-08 22:34 ` Eric Biggers
2021-12-08 22:59 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-12-08 0:56 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] docs: sysfs-block: document virt_boundary_mask Eric Biggers
2021-12-08 18:33 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-12-08 22:38 ` Eric Biggers
2021-12-08 22:59 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2021-12-08 0:56 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] docs: block: remove queue-sysfs.rst Eric Biggers
2021-12-08 0:56 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] MAINTAINERS: add entries for block layer documentation Eric Biggers
2021-12-08 3:01 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] docs: consolidate sysfs-block into Documentation/ABI/ Martin K. Petersen
2021-12-08 18:35 ` Bart Van Assche
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=ac1cefeb-d0f1-3cfc-ffb4-e5ac37b46bcf@acm.org \
--to=bvanassche@acm.org \
--cc=axboe@kernel.dk \
--cc=ebiggers@kernel.org \
--cc=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org \
--cc=hare@suse.de \
--cc=linux-block@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-doc@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).