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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com, Mark Landis <mark.landis@teradata.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND] [PATCH linux-2.6-block#for-2.6.32] Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:17:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090911071753.GC18599@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909110913.46769.knikanth@suse.de>

On Fri, Sep 11 2009, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> Currently, there is a single in_flight counter measuring the number of
> requests in the request_queue. But some monitoring tools would like to
> know how many read requests and write requests are in progress. Split the
> current in_flight counter into two seperate counters for read and write.
> 
> This information is exported as a sysfs attribute, as changing the
> currently available stat files would break the existing tools.

Applied, this is better than breaking existing stat exports.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: Mark Landis <mark.landis@teradata.com>,
	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND] [PATCH linux-2.6-block#for-2.6.32] Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:17:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090911071753.GC18599@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909110913.46769.knikanth@suse.de>

On Fri, Sep 11 2009, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> Currently, there is a single in_flight counter measuring the number of
> requests in the request_queue. But some monitoring tools would like to
> know how many read requests and write requests are in progress. Split the
> current in_flight counter into two seperate counters for read and write.
> 
> This information is exported as a sysfs attribute, as changing the
> currently available stat files would break the existing tools.

Applied, this is better than breaking existing stat exports.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-11  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-24 10:33 [PATCH] Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-08-24 11:07 ` Jens Axboe
2009-08-24 12:24   ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-08-24 12:24     ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-09-11  3:43     ` [RESEND] [PATCH linux-2.6-block#for-2.6.32] " Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-09-11  3:43       ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-09-11  7:17       ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2009-09-11  7:17         ` Jens Axboe

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