From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tracking actual disk write sources instead of flush thread
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:01:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140416140147.GA15429@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <534DE477.5080904@ubuntu.com>
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:01:27PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> A lot of disk writes, especially when they are small individual files
> being written by several different processes, are hidden behind the
> flush thread. Is there no way to properly track the process actually
> responsible for the IO, even when it is the flush thread that
> initiates the writeout?
Correct.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-16 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-16 2:01 Tracking actual disk write sources instead of flush thread Phillip Susi
2014-04-16 14:01 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2014-04-16 15:15 ` Phillip Susi
2014-04-16 16:42 ` Andreas Dilger
2014-04-16 17:44 ` Zuckerman, Boris
2014-04-16 18:18 ` Phillip Susi
2014-04-16 18:28 ` Zuckerman, Boris
2014-04-16 19:27 ` Phillip Susi
2014-04-23 13:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2014-04-23 19:39 ` Phillip Susi
2014-04-23 23:00 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-24 1:20 ` Phillip Susi
2014-04-23 23:19 ` Andreas Dilger
2014-04-24 1:39 ` Phillip Susi
2014-04-28 3:27 ` Andi Kleen
2014-04-16 19:33 ` Andi Kleen
2014-04-24 19:33 ` Jan Kara
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