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authorJeff Moyer2019-01-08 22:57:34 +0100
committerJens Axboe2019-01-09 04:49:46 +0100
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block: clarify documentation for blk_{start|finish}_plug
There was some confusion about what these functions did. Make it clear that this is a hint for upper layers to pass to the block layer, and that it does not guarantee that I/O will not be submitted between a start and finish plug. Reported-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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