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 DISKSORT 9F "Jan 16, 2006"
 NAME
disksort - single direction elevator seek sort for buffers
 SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/conf.h>
#include <sys/ddi.h>
#include <sys/sunddi.h>
void

disksort(struct diskhd *dp, struct buf *bp);


 INTERFACE LEVEL

Solaris DDI specific (Solaris DDI).
 PARAMETERS
dp

A pointer to a diskhd structure. A diskhd structure is essentially
identical to head of a buffer structure (see buf(9S)). The only defined
items of interest for this structure are the av_forw and av_back
structure elements which are used to maintain the front and tail pointers of
the forward linked I/O request queue.


bp

A pointer to a buffer structure. Typically this is the I/O request that
the driver receives in its strategy routine (see strategy(9E)). The
driver is responsible for initializing the b_resid structure element to a
meaningful sort key value prior to calling disksort().


 DESCRIPTION

The function disksort() sorts a pointer to a buffer into a single forward
linked list headed by the av_forw element of the argument *dp.

It uses a one-way elevator algorithm that sorts buffers into the queue in
ascending order based upon a key value held in the argument buffer structure
element b_resid.

This value can either be the driver calculated cylinder number for the
I/O request described by the buffer argument, or simply the absolute
logical block for the I/O request, depending on how fine grained the sort
is desired to be or how applicable either quantity is to the device in
question.

The head of the linked list is found by use of the av_forw structure
element of the argument *dp. The tail of the linked list is found by use
of the av_back structure element of the argument *dp. The
av_forw element of the *bp argument is used by disksort() to
maintain the forward linkage. The value at the head of the list presumably
indicates the currently active disk area.
 CONTEXT

This function can be called from user, interrupt, or kernel context.
 SEE ALSO

strategy(9E), buf(9S)

Writing Device Drivers
 WARNINGS

The disksort() function does no locking. Therefore, any locking is
completely the responsibility of the caller.