GENERIC_UNPLUG_DEVICE

Section: (9)
Updated: 09 October 2005
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NAME

generic_unplug_device - fire a request queue  

SYNOPSIS

"SYNOPSIS"

void generic_unplug_device (request_queue_t * q);  

ARGUMENTS

q
The &request_queue_t in question
 

DESCRIPTION

Linux uses plugging to build bigger requests queues before letting the device have at them. If a queue is plugged, the I/O scheduler is still adding and merging requests on the queue. Once the queue gets unplugged, the request_fn defined for the queue is invoked and transfers started.


 

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