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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/1] mmc: block: Add write packing control
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On Mon, June 11, 2012 5:28 pm, Muthu Kumar wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Muthu Kumar <muthu.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Maya Erez <merez@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>>> The write packing control will ensure that read requests latency is
>>> not increased due to long write packed commands.
>>>
>>> The trigger for enabling the write packing is managing to pack several
>>> write requests. The number of potential packed requests that will
>>> trigger
>>> the packing can be configured via sysfs by writing the required value
>>> to:
>>> /sys/block/<block_dev_name>/num_wr_reqs_to_start_packing.
>>> The trigger for disabling the write packing is fetching a read request.
>>>
>>
>> If it is applicable only to MMC why do we have this sysfs attr for all
>> block devices?
>
> Just to be clear, please create a directory, say mmc, under
> /sys/block/<dev>/ and create the attr inside that.
>
> You can refer to dm (dm-sysfs.c) for sample implementation.
>
> Regards,
> Muthu
>

I will apply this change in the next patch.

Thanks,
Maya Erez

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