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authorRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>2010-11-11 12:09:59 +0100
committerJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>2010-11-11 12:09:59 +0100
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Documentation: remove anticipatory scheduler info
Remove anticipatory block I/O scheduler info from Documentation/ since the code has been deleted. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Reported-by: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rbtree.txt4
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt b/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt
index d5af3f63081..71cfbdc0f74 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ you can do so by typing:
As of the Linux 2.6.10 kernel, it is now possible to change the
IO scheduler for a given block device on the fly (thus making it possible,
for instance, to set the CFQ scheduler for the system default, but
-set a specific device to use the anticipatory or noop schedulers - which
+set a specific device to use the deadline or noop schedulers - which
can improve that device's throughput).
To set a specific scheduler, simply do this:
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ a "cat /sys/block/DEV/queue/scheduler" - the list of valid names
will be displayed, with the currently selected scheduler in brackets:
# cat /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler
-noop anticipatory deadline [cfq]
-# echo anticipatory > /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler
+noop deadline [cfq]
+# echo deadline > /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler
# cat /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler
-noop [anticipatory] deadline cfq
+noop [deadline] cfq
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index ed45e9802aa..92e83e53148 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.
elevator= [IOSCHED]
- Format: {"anticipatory" | "cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
+ Format: {"cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}
See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and
Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/rbtree.txt b/Documentation/rbtree.txt
index 221f38be98f..19f8278c385 100644
--- a/Documentation/rbtree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rbtree.txt
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ three rotations, respectively, to balance the tree), with slightly slower
To quote Linux Weekly News:
There are a number of red-black trees in use in the kernel.
- The anticipatory, deadline, and CFQ I/O schedulers all employ
- rbtrees to track requests; the packet CD/DVD driver does the same.
+ The deadline and CFQ I/O schedulers employ rbtrees to
+ track requests; the packet CD/DVD driver does the same.
The high-resolution timer code uses an rbtree to organize outstanding
timer requests. The ext3 filesystem tracks directory entries in a
red-black tree. Virtual memory areas (VMAs) are tracked with red-black