On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Joe Lawrence <joe.lawre...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Add descriptions for dax, io_poll, and write_same_max_bytes files.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawre...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt 
> b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
> index d515d58962b9..2a3904030dea 100644
> --- a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
> @@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ add_random (RW)
>  This file allows to turn off the disk entropy contribution. Default
>  value of this file is '1'(on).
>
> +dax (RO)
> +--------
> +This file indicates whether the device supports Direct Access (DAX),
> +used by CPU-addressable storage to bypass the pagecache.  It shows '1'
> +if true, '0' if not.
> +
>  discard_granularity (RO)
>  -----------------------
>  This shows the size of internal allocation of the device in bytes, if
> @@ -46,6 +52,12 @@ hw_sector_size (RO)
>  -------------------
>  This is the hardware sector size of the device, in bytes.
>
> +io_poll (RW)
> +------------
> +When read, this file shows the total number of block IO polls and how
> +many returned success.  Writing '0' to this file will disable polling
> +for this device.  Writing any non-zero value will enable this feature.
> +
>  iostats (RW)
>  -------------
>  This file is used to control (on/off) the iostats accounting of the
> @@ -151,5 +163,11 @@ device state. This means that it might not be safe to 
> toggle the
>  setting from "write back" to "write through", since that will also
>  eliminate cache flushes issued by the kernel.
>
> +write_same_max_bytes (RO)
> +-------------------------
> +This is the number of bytes the device can write in a single write-same
> +command.  A value of '0' means write-same is not supported by this
> +device.
> +
>
>  Jens Axboe <jens.ax...@oracle.com>, February 2009
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>

Thanks Joe! for the DAX part:

Acked-by: Yigal Korman <yi...@plexistor.com>
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