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From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>,
	"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com"
	<James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	"linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	"osandov@fb.com" <osandov@fb.com>,
	"hare@suse.com" <hare@suse.com>,
	"axboe@kernel.dk" <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 10/10] scsi: Implement blk_mq_ops.show_rq()
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 16:23:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170424232359.GA21578@vader.DHCP.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq1zif5fl61.fsf@oracle.com>

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 07:19:50PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> 
> Bart,
> 
> > SCSI tracing has to be enabled before a test is started, produces a
> > huge amount of data, and deriving state information from a huge trace
> > is far from easy. The information in debugfs provides an easy to read
> > overview of the current state without having to analyze megabytes of
> > traces, without introducing any slowdown and without having to enable
> > any tracing mechanism from beforehand.
> 
> Fair enough. Just seems like there's an obvious overlap in plumbing.
> Don't know if that can be leveraged instead of introducing something
> completely new?

The debugfs infrastructure is already there, and it already supports
showing requests. Bart is just exposing the SCSI information.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-24 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-21 23:40 [PATCH v4 00/10] blk-mq debugfs patches for kernel v4.12 Bart Van Assche
2017-04-21 23:40 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] blk-mq: Register <dev>/queue/mq after having registered <dev>/queue Bart Van Assche
2017-04-24  7:25   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-04-24 16:58   ` Omar Sandoval
2017-04-21 23:40 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] blk-mq: Let blk_mq_debugfs_register() look up the queue name Bart Van Assche
2017-04-24  7:25   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-04-24 16:57   ` Omar Sandoval
2017-04-21 23:40 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] blk-mq-debugfs: Rename functions for registering and unregistering the mq directory Bart Van Assche
2017-04-24  7:26   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-04-24 16:46   ` Omar Sandoval
2017-04-21 23:40 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] blk-mq: Check blk_mq_debugfs_register() return value Bart Van Assche
2017-04-24  7:26   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-04-24 16:49   ` Omar Sandoval
2017-04-24 17:05     ` Bart Van Assche
2017-04-21 23:40 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] blk-mq: Unregister debugfs attributes earlier Bart Van Assche
2017-04-24  7:27   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-04-24 16:55   ` Omar Sandoval
2017-04-24 17:12     ` Bart Van Assche
2017-04-24 17:17       ` Omar Sandoval
2017-04-24 17:24         ` Bart Van Assche
2017-04-24 17:26           ` Omar Sandoval
2017-04-24 17:29             ` Omar Sandoval
2017-04-24 17:34               ` Bart Van Assche
2017-04-21 23:40 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] blk-mq: Move the "state" debugfs attribute one level down Bart Van Assche
2017-04-24  7:28   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-04-21 23:40 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] blk-mq: Make blk_flags_show() callers append a newline character Bart Van Assche
2017-04-24  7:28   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-04-21 23:40 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] blk-mq: Show operation, cmd_flags and rq_flags names Bart Van Assche
2017-04-24  7:30   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-04-21 23:40 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] blk-mq: Add blk_mq_ops.show_rq() Bart Van Assche
2017-04-24  7:32   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-04-24 21:51     ` Bart Van Assche
2017-04-25 15:16       ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-04-25 15:35         ` Bart Van Assche
2017-04-25 16:34         ` Jens Axboe
2017-04-21 23:40 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] scsi: Implement blk_mq_ops.show_rq() Bart Van Assche
2017-04-24  7:35   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-04-24 21:35   ` Martin K. Petersen
2017-04-24 21:49     ` Bart Van Assche
2017-04-24 23:19       ` Martin K. Petersen
2017-04-24 23:23         ` Omar Sandoval [this message]
2017-04-24 23:33           ` Martin K. Petersen
2017-04-24 23:46             ` Bart Van Assche
2017-04-25 16:40               ` Martin K. Petersen

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