linux-ext4 - Re: tracepoints in ext4 (and/or ext3?)

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Message-Id: <20080812152113.9470.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:33:02 +0900
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tracepoints in ext4 (and/or ext3?)

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 03:18:07PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > As just an initial inquiry, I'm wondering how people would feel about
> > putting some tracepoints (trace_mark()) into ext[34] for monitoring the
> > fs behavior.
> 
> I think it's a great idea!  Do you have some specific tracepoints in
> mind?

I think two viewpoint exist. An administrator want to
  - performance mesurement
  - which IO aborted it, if any error happend.

In addition, OS vendor want to
  - split out fs problem and device problem

So, candidate of tracepints are
  - jbd activity
  - boundary activity between fs and block layer 


I don't fs expert, it is just idea.


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