From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [Patch] SCSI statistics Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:34:24 -0600 Message-ID: <20060918213424.GS2585@parisc-linux.org> References: <1158578439.3060.50.camel@dyn-9-152-230-71.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <1158614913.3182.78.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:61580 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751093AbWIRVe0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:34:26 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1158614913.3182.78.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Martin Peschke , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:28:32PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > wouldn't this be nicer as a block level functionality? We already have block layer statistics. What we don't have are stats that measure the other ways to send commands to scsi devices like SG and retries that the scsi system does without notifying the block layer. I think both are useful (although at first glance they seem redundant).