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Commit 40405851 authored by Jeff Moyer's avatar Jeff Moyer Committed by Jens Axboe
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block: clarify documentation for blk_{start|finish}_plug



There was some confusion about what these functions did.  Make it clear
that this is a hint for upper layers to pass to the block layer, and
that it does not guarantee that I/O will not be submitted between a
start and finish plug.

Reported-by: default avatar"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 373282e7
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