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block: doc: add slice_idle_us to bfq documentation
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Of the tunables available for the bfq I/O scheduler, the only one
missing from the documentation in 'Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt'
is slice_idle_us. Add this tunable to the documentation and a short
explanation of its purpose.

Acked-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: John Pittman <jpittman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Expand Up @@ -357,6 +357,13 @@ video playing/streaming, a very low drop rate may be more important
than maximum throughput. In these cases, consider setting the
strict_guarantees parameter.

slice_idle_us
-------------

Controls the same tuning parameter as slice_idle, but in microseconds.
Either tunable can be used to set idling behavior. Afterwards, the
other tunable will reflect the newly set value in sysfs.

strict_guarantees
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