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Detect sequential Write IOs and pass the hint that it is part of sequential stream to help HBA Firmware do the Full Stripe Writes. For read IOs on certain RAID volumes like Read Ahead volumes,this will help driver to send it to Firmware even if the IOs can potentially be sent to hardware directly (called fast path) bypassing firmware. Design: 8 streams are maintained per RAID volume as per the combined firmware/driver design. When there is no stream detected the LRU stream is used for next potential stream and LRU/MRU map is updated to make this as MRU stream. Every time a stream is detected the MRU map is updated to make the current stream as MRU stream. Signed-off-by: Sasikumar Chandrasekaran <sasikumar.pc@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.