blk_start_request(9)

blk_start_request9

Start request processing on the driver

Usage

void blk_start_request(struct request * req);

Arguments

req

request to dequeue

Overview

Dequeue req and start timeout timer on it. This hands off the request to the driver.

Block internal functions which don't want to start timer should call blk_dequeue_request.

Context

queue_lock must be held.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 9

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.