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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/15] readahead: add /debug/readahead/stats
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:40:17 -0500
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References: <20100224031001.026464755@intel.com> <20100224031055.024165020@intel.com>
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
        Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
        Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>,
        Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
        Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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On 02/23/2010 10:10 PM, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> Collect readahead stats when CONFIG_READAHEAD_STATS=y.
>
> This is enabled by default because the added overheads are trivial:
> two readahead_stats() calls per readahead.
>
> Example output:
> (taken from a fresh booted NFS-ROOT box with rsize=16k)
>
> $ cat /debug/readahead/stats
> pattern     readahead    eof_hit  cache_hit         io    sync_io    mmap_io       size async_size    io_size
> initial           524        216         26        498        498         18          7          4          4
> subsequent        181         80          1        130         13         60         25         25         24
> context            94         28          3         85         64          8          7          2          5
> thrash              0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0
> around            162        121         33        162        162        162         60          0         21
> fadvise             0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0
> random            137          0          0        137        137          0          1          0          1
> all              1098        445         63       1012        874          0         17          6          9
>
> The two most important columns are
> - io		number of readahead IO
> - io_size	average readahead IO size
>
> CC: Ingo Molnar<mingo@elte.hu>
> CC: Jens Axboe<jens.axboe@oracle.com>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra<a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang<fengguang.wu@intel.com>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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