linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: Add a trace point whenever a barrier IO request is sent

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Message-ID: <20100423194122.GB15607@tux1.beaverton.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:41:22 -0700
From:	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Add a trace point whenever a barrier IO request
	is sent

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:27:27PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21 2010, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > Simple debugging patch used to watch for barrier requests.  I've been using
> > this to watch ext4's barrier=1 behavior.
> 
> But barriers are already being logged, if you watch blkparse data, it'll
> be RB or WB events. So I don't see what this addition provides that we
> don't already have?

I also have the function graph tracer turned on, so I can (try to) map barrier
requests to specific chunks of ext4 code.  But, maybe there's a way to do this
with blkparse that I haven't found yet?

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