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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Standard C library
.IR Note :
glibc provides no wrappers for these system calls,
necessitating the use of
-.BR syscall (2).
+.MR syscall 2 .
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR ioprio_get ()
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ Linux 2.6.13.
.SH NOTES
Two or more processes or threads can share an I/O context.
This will be the case when
-.BR clone (2)
+.MR clone 2
was called with the
.B CLONE_IO
flag.
@@ -208,9 +208,9 @@ priority of all threads in a process, you may need to call
on each of the threads.
The thread ID that you would need for this operation
is the one that is returned by
-.BR gettid (2)
+.MR gettid 2
or
-.BR clone (2).
+.MR clone 2 .
.P
These system calls have an effect only when used
in conjunction with an I/O scheduler that supports I/O priorities.
@@ -219,7 +219,8 @@ As at kernel 2.6.17 the only such scheduler is the Completely Fair Queuing
.P
If no I/O scheduler has been set for a thread,
then by default the I/O priority will follow the CPU nice value
-.RB ( setpriority (2)).
+\%(\c
+.MR setpriority 2 ).
Before Linux 2.6.24,
once an I/O priority had been set using
.BR ioprio_set (),
@@ -297,7 +298,7 @@ The class data (priority) determines how much
I/O bandwidth the process will get.
Best-effort priority levels are analogous to CPU nice values
(see
-.BR getpriority (2)).
+.MR getpriority 2 ).
The priority level determines a priority relative
to other processes in the best-effort scheduling class.
Priority levels range from 0 (highest) to 7 (lowest).
@@ -352,11 +353,11 @@ the function prototypes and macros described on this page.
Suitable definitions can be found in
.IR linux/ioprio.h .
.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR ionice (1),
-.BR getpriority (2),
-.BR open (2),
-.BR capabilities (7),
-.BR cgroups (7)
+.MR ionice 1 ,
+.MR getpriority 2 ,
+.MR open 2 ,
+.MR capabilities 7 ,
+.MR cgroups 7
.P
.I Documentation/block/ioprio.txt
in the Linux kernel source tree