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Random man page:  ioforw_timeout(5) -- enable timeout in I/O forwarding
With I/O forwarding, the drivers' strategy routine forwards the I/O requests to a processor that is configured to handle the I/O completion interrupts from the device. I/O forwarding queues these requests in a per processor queue and handles them in a low priority interrupt context. In case of large number of requests, I/O forwarding may starve processes scheduled on the processor. When the tunab...
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To see the output from when your computer started, run dmesg(8).  If it has
been replaced with other messages, look at /var/run/dmesg.boot.
		-- Francisco Reyes 
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