Enhanced partition statistics: documentation update
Update the documentation to reflect the change in userspace interface.
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats b/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats
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+What: /proc/diskstats
+Date: February 2008
+Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
+Description:
+ The /proc/diskstats file displays the I/O statistics
+ of block devices. Each line contains the following 14
+ fields:
+ 1 - major number
+ 2 - minor mumber
+ 3 - device name
+ 4 - reads completed succesfully
+ 5 - reads merged
+ 6 - sectors read
+ 7 - time spent reading (ms)
+ 8 - writes completed
+ 9 - writes merged
+ 10 - sectors written
+ 11 - time spent writing (ms)
+ 12 - I/Os currently in progress
+ 13 - time spent doing I/Os (ms)
+ 14 - weighted time spent doing I/Os (ms)
+ For more details refer to Documentation/iostats.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
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+What: /sys/block/<disk>/stat
+Date: February 2008
+Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
+Description:
+ The /sys/block/<disk>/stat files displays the I/O
+ statistics of disk <disk>. They contain 11 fields:
+ 1 - reads completed succesfully
+ 2 - reads merged
+ 3 - sectors read
+ 4 - time spent reading (ms)
+ 5 - writes completed
+ 6 - writes merged
+ 7 - sectors written
+ 8 - time spent writing (ms)
+ 9 - I/Os currently in progress
+ 10 - time spent doing I/Os (ms)
+ 11 - weighted time spent doing I/Os (ms)
+ For more details refer Documentation/iostats.txt
+
+
+What: /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/stat
+Date: February 2008
+Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
+Description:
+ The /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/stat files display the
+ I/O statistics of partition <part>. The format is the
+ same as the above-written /sys/block/<disk>/stat
+ format.
diff --git a/Documentation/iostats.txt b/Documentation/iostats.txt
index b963c3b..5925c3c 100644
--- a/Documentation/iostats.txt
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@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
Each set of stats only applies to the indicated device; if you want
system-wide stats you'll have to find all the devices and sum them all up.
-Field 1 -- # of reads issued
+Field 1 -- # of reads completed
This is the total number of reads completed successfully.
Field 2 -- # of reads merged, field 6 -- # of writes merged
Reads and writes which are adjacent to each other may be merged for
@@ -132,6 +132,19 @@
of queuing for partitions, and at completion for whole disks. This is
a subtle distinction that is probably uninteresting for most cases.
+More significant is the error induced by counting the numbers of
+reads/writes before merges for partitions and after for disks. Since a
+typical workload usually contains a lot of successive and adjacent requests,
+the number of reads/writes issued can be several times higher than the
+number of reads/writes completed.
+
+In 2.6.25, the full statistic set is again available for partitions and
+disk and partition statistics are consistent again. Since we still don't
+keep record of the partition-relative address, an operation is attributed to
+the partition which contains the first sector of the request after the
+eventual merges. As requests can be merged across partition, this could lead
+to some (probably insignificant) innacuracy.
+
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