From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-btrace@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] blktrace: Add blktrace ioctls to SCSI generic devices
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:11:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080111091142.GL6258@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080107074647.784615000@de.ibm.com>
On Mon, Jan 07 2008, Christof Schmitt wrote:
> From: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
>
> Since the SCSI layer uses the request queues from the block layer, blktrace can
> also be used to trace the requests to all SCSI devices (like SCSI tape drives),
> not only disks. The only missing part is the ioctl interface to start and stop
> tracing.
>
> This patch adds the SETUP, START, STOP and TEARDOWN ioctls from blktrace to the
> sg device files. With this change, blktrace can be used for SCSI devices like
> for disks, e.g.: blktrace -d /dev/sg1 -o - | blkparse -i -
>
> Signed-off-by: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
Looks fine to me, queued up for 2.6.25.
--
Jens Axboe
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-07 7:45 [patch 0/1] Add blktrace interface to sg device files Christof Schmitt
2008-01-07 7:45 ` [patch 1/1] blktrace: Add blktrace ioctls to SCSI generic devices Christof Schmitt
2008-01-11 9:11 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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