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Message-ID: <47A8AF1F.5060402@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:46:55 +0100
From: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
CC: axboe@...nel.dk, "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@...aid.com>
Subject: [Patch 7/6] Enhanced partition statistics: documentation update
Update the documentation to reflect the change in userspace interface.
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
---
Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats | 22 ++++++++++++++
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block | 28 +++++++++++++++++++
Documentation/iostats.txt | 15 +++++++++-
3 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -urNp linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats linux-2.6/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats
--- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats 2008-02-05 19:29:10.000000000 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+What: /proc/diskstats
+Date: February 2008
+Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
+Description:
+ The /proc/diskstats file displays the I/O statistics
+ of block devices. Each line contains the following 14
+ fields:
+ 1 - major number
+ 2 - minor mumber
+ 3 - device name
+ 4 - reads completed succesfully
+ 5 - reads merged
+ 6 - sectors read
+ 7 - time spent reading (ms)
+ 8 - writes completed
+ 9 - writes merged
+ 10 - sectors written
+ 11 - time spent writing (ms)
+ 12 - I/Os currently in progress
+ 13 - time spent doing I/Os (ms)
+ 14 - weighted time spent doing I/Os (ms)
+ For more details refer to Documentation/iostats.txt
diff -urNp linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block linux-2.6/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
--- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block 2008-02-05 19:32:02.000000000 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+What: /sys/block/<disk>/stat
+Date: February 2008
+Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
+Description:
+ The /sys/block/<disk>/stat files displays the I/O
+ statistics of disk <disk>. They contain 11 fields:
+ 1 - reads completed succesfully
+ 2 - reads merged
+ 3 - sectors read
+ 4 - time spent reading (ms)
+ 5 - writes completed
+ 6 - writes merged
+ 7 - sectors written
+ 8 - time spent writing (ms)
+ 9 - I/Os currently in progress
+ 10 - time spent doing I/Os (ms)
+ 11 - weighted time spent doing I/Os (ms)
+ For more details refer Documentation/iostats.txt
+
+
+What: /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/stat
+Date: February 2008
+Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
+Description:
+ The /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/stat files display the
+ I/O statistics of partition <part>. The format is the
+ same as the above-written /sys/block/<disk>/stat
+ format.
diff -urNp linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/iostats.txt linux-2.6/Documentation/iostats.txt
--- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/iostats.txt 2008-02-05 19:29:44.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/Documentation/iostats.txt 2008-02-05 19:29:10.000000000 +0100
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ they should not wrap twice before you no
Each set of stats only applies to the indicated device; if you want
system-wide stats you'll have to find all the devices and sum them all up.
-Field 1 -- # of reads issued
+Field 1 -- # of reads completed
This is the total number of reads completed successfully.
Field 2 -- # of reads merged, field 6 -- # of writes merged
Reads and writes which are adjacent to each other may be merged for
@@ -132,6 +132,19 @@ words, the number of reads for partition
of queuing for partitions, and at completion for whole disks. This is
a subtle distinction that is probably uninteresting for most cases.
+More significant is the error induced by counting the numbers of
+reads/writes before merges for partitions and after for disks. Since a
+typical workload usually contains a lot of successive and adjacent requests,
+the number of reads/writes issued can be several times higher than the
+number of reads/writes completed.
+
+In 2.6.25, the full statistic set is again available for partitions and
+disk and partition statistics are consistent again. Since we still don't
+keep record of the partition-relative address, an operation is attributed to
+the partition which contains the first sector of the request after the
+eventual merges. As requests can be merged across partition, this could lead
+to some (probably insignificant) innacuracy.
+
Additional notes
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