Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mmc: block: Add write packing control

From: Muthu Kumar
Date: Mon Jun 11 2012 - 17:19:45 EST


On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Maya Erez <merez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The write packing control will ensure that read requests latency is
> not increased due to long write packed commands.
>
> The trigger for enabling the write packing is managing to pack several
> write requests. The number of potential packed requests that will trigger
> the packing can be configured via sysfs by writing the required value to:
> /sys/block/<block_dev_name>/num_wr_reqs_to_start_packing.
> The trigger for disabling the write packing is fetching a read request.
>

If it is applicable only to MMC why do we have this sysfs attr for all
block devices?
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