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Linux Kernel in a Nutshell
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Linux Kernel in a Nutshell

by Greg Kroah-Hartman
December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
202 pages
8h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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IOSCHED_NOOP — No-op I/O scheduler

The no-op I/O scheduler is a minimal scheduler that does basic merging and sorting. Its main uses include non-disk based block devices such as memory devices and specialised software or hardware environments that do their own scheduling and require only minimal assistance from the kernel.

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