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authorWeiping Zhang <zhangweiping@didiglobal.com>2018-12-26 04:56:33 +0100
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2019-01-05 03:19:51 +0100
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block: add documentation for io_timeout
Add documentation for /sys/block/<disk>/queue/io_timeout. Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Weiping Zhang <zhangweiping@didiglobal.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt7
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
index 7710d4022b19..dfad7427817c 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
@@ -279,3 +279,12 @@ Description:
size in 512B sectors of the zones of the device, with
the eventual exception of the last zone of the device
which may be smaller.
+
+What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/io_timeout
+Date: November 2018
+Contact: Weiping Zhang <zhangweiping@didiglobal.com>
+Description:
+ io_timeout is the request timeout in milliseconds. If a request
+ does not complete in this time then the block driver timeout
+ handler is invoked. That timeout handler can decide to retry
+ the request, to fail it or to start a device recovery strategy.
diff --git a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
index 39e286d7afc9..83b457e24bba 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
@@ -67,6 +67,13 @@ If set to a value larger than 0, the kernel will put the process issuing
IO to sleep for this amount of microseconds before entering classic
polling.
+io_timeout (RW)
+---------------
+io_timeout is the request timeout in milliseconds. If a request does not
+complete in this time then the block driver timeout handler is invoked.
+That timeout handler can decide to retry the request, to fail it or to start
+a device recovery strategy.
+
iostats (RW)
-------------
This file is used to control (on/off) the iostats accounting of the