This patch introduces performance histogram record keeping for block I/O, used for performance tuning. It is turned off by default. When turned on, you simply do something like: # cat /sys/block/sda/read_request_histo rows = bytes columns = ms 10 20 50 100 200 500 1000 2000 2048 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4096 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8192 17231 135 41 10 0 0 0 0 16384 4400 24 6 2 0 0 0 0 32768 2897 34 4 4 0 0 0 0 65536 7089 87 5 1 2 0 0 0 # Signed-off-by: Edward A. Falk