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@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ read or write requests. Note that the total allocated number may be twice
this amount, since it applies only to reads or writes (not the accumulated
sum).
+To avoid priority inversion through request starvation, a request
+queue maintains a separate request pool per each cgroup when
+CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP is enabled, and this parameter applies to each such
+per-block-cgroup request pool. IOW, if there are N block cgroups,
+each request queue may have upto N request pools, each independently
+regulated by nr_requests.
+
read_ahead_kb (RW)
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Maximum number of kilobytes to read-ahead for filesystems on this block