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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Jens Axboe" <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	"Rik van Riel" <riel@redhat.com>,
	"Linux Memory Management List" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	"Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" <acme@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: show readahead state in fdinfo
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:49:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111215094922.GA29981@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111215085540.GA23966@localhost>


* Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 01:57:43AM +0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 09:09:03PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > > Record the readahead pattern in ra->pattern and extend the ra_submit()
> > > parameters, to be used by the next readahead tracing/stats patches.
> > 
> > I like this, could it be exported it a bit more formally in /proc for 
> > each file descriptor?
> 
> How about this?
> ---
> Subject: proc: show readahead state in fdinfo
> Date: Thu Dec 15 14:35:56 CST 2011
> 
> Append three readahead states to /proc/<PID>/fdinfo/<FD>:

Not a very good idea - please keep debug info under /debug as 
much as possible (as your original series did), instead of 
creating an ad-hoc insta-ABI in /proc.

In the long run we'd really like to retrieve such kind of 
information not even via ad-hoc exported info in /debug but via 
the standard event facilities: the tracepoints, if they are 
versatile enough, could be used to collect these stats and more.

Thanks,

	Ingo

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-15  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-29 13:09 [PATCH 0/9] readahead stats/tracing, backwards prefetching and more (v2) Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 13:09 ` [PATCH 1/9] block: limit default readahead size for small devices Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 13:09 ` [PATCH 2/9] readahead: snap readahead request to EOF Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 14:29   ` Jan Kara
2011-11-30  1:06     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-30 11:37       ` Jan Kara
2011-11-30 12:06         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 13:09 ` [PATCH 3/9] readahead: record readahead patterns Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 14:40   ` Jan Kara
2011-11-29 17:57   ` Andi Kleen
2011-11-30  1:18     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-12-15  8:55     ` [PATCH] proc: show readahead state in fdinfo Wu Fengguang
2011-12-15  9:49       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-11-29 13:09 ` [PATCH 4/9] readahead: tag mmap page fault call sites Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 14:41   ` Jan Kara
2011-11-29 13:09 ` [PATCH 5/9] readahead: tag metadata " Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 14:45   ` Jan Kara
2011-11-29 13:09 ` [PATCH 6/9] readahead: add /debug/readahead/stats Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 15:21   ` Jan Kara
2011-11-30  0:44     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-12-14  6:36     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-12-19 16:32       ` Jan Kara
2011-12-21  1:29         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-12-21  4:06           ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-23  3:33             ` Wu Fengguang
2011-12-23 11:16               ` Jan Kara
2011-11-29 13:09 ` [PATCH 7/9] readahead: add vfs/readahead tracing event Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 15:22   ` Jan Kara
2011-11-30  0:42     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-30 11:44       ` Jan Kara
2011-11-30 12:06         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-12-06 15:30   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-07  9:18     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-12-08  9:03     ` [PATCH] writeback: show writeback reason with __print_symbolic Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 13:09 ` [PATCH 8/9] readahead: basic support for backwards prefetching Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 15:35   ` Jan Kara
2011-11-29 16:37     ` Pádraig Brady
2011-11-30  0:24       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-30  0:37     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-30 11:21       ` Jan Kara
2011-11-29 13:09 ` [PATCH 9/9] readahead: dont do start-of-file readahead after lseek() Wu Fengguang

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