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docs: block: blk-mq.rst: correct drive -> driver
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It is 'driver' to complete the request. Also remove a redundant space.

Signed-off-by: Yue Hu <huyue2@yulong.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210520074225.1989-1-zbestahu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Software staging queues
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The block IO subsystem adds requests in the software staging queues
The block IO subsystem adds requests in the software staging queues
(represented by struct blk_mq_ctx) in case that they weren't sent
directly to the driver. A request is one or more BIOs. They arrived at the
block layer through the data structure struct bio. The block layer
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identified by an integer, ranging from 0 to the dispatch queue size. This tag
is generated by the block layer and later reused by the device driver, removing
the need to create a redundant identifier. When a request is completed in the
drive, the tag is sent back to the block layer to notify it of the finalization.
driver, the tag is sent back to the block layer to notify it of the finalization.
This removes the need to do a linear search to find out which IO has been
completed.

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