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authorDivyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>2010-04-09 08:31:19 +0200
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2010-04-09 08:31:19 +0200
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blkio: Changes to IO controller additional stats patches
that include some minor fixes and addresses all comments. Changelog: (most based on Vivek Goyal's comments) o renamed blkiocg_reset_write to blkiocg_reset_stats o more clarification in the documentation on io_service_time and io_wait_time o Initialize blkg->stats_lock o rename io_add_stat to blkio_add_stat and declare it static o use bool for direction and sync o derive direction and sync info from existing rq methods o use 12 for major:minor string length o define io_service_time better to cover the NCQ case o add a separate reset_stats interface o make the indexed stats a 2d array to simplify macro and function pointer code o blkio.time now exports in jiffies as before o Added stats description in patch description and Documentation/cgroup/blkio-controller.txt o Prefix all stats functions with blkio and make them static as applicable o replace IO_TYPE_MAX with IO_TYPE_TOTAL o Moved #define constant to top of blk-cgroup.c o Pass dev_t around instead of char * o Add note to documentation file about resetting stats o use BLK_CGROUP_MODULE in addition to BLK_CGROUP config option in #ifdef statements o Avoid struct request specific knowledge in blk-cgroup. blk-cgroup.h now has rq_direction() and rq_sync() functions which are used by CFQ and when using io-controller at a higher level, bio_* functions can be added. Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt48
1 files changed, 47 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
index 630879c..ed04fe9 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ Details of cgroup files
=======================
- blkio.weight
- Specifies per cgroup weight.
-
Currently allowed range of weights is from 100 to 1000.
- blkio.time
@@ -92,6 +91,49 @@ Details of cgroup files
third field specifies the number of sectors transferred by the
group to/from the device.
+- blkio.io_service_bytes
+ - Number of bytes transferred to/from the disk by the group. These
+ are further divided by the type of operation - read or write, sync
+ or async. First two fields specify the major and minor number of the
+ device, third field specifies the operation type and the fourth field
+ specifies the number of bytes.
+
+- blkio.io_serviced
+ - Number of IOs completed to/from the disk by the group. These
+ are further divided by the type of operation - read or write, sync
+ or async. First two fields specify the major and minor number of the
+ device, third field specifies the operation type and the fourth field
+ specifies the number of IOs.
+
+- blkio.io_service_time
+ - Total amount of time between request dispatch and request completion
+ for the IOs done by this cgroup. This is in nanoseconds to make it
+ meaningful for flash devices too. For devices with queue depth of 1,
+ this time represents the actual service time. When queue_depth > 1,
+ that is no longer true as requests may be served out of order. This
+ may cause the service time for a given IO to include the service time
+ of multiple IOs when served out of order which may result in total
+ io_service_time > actual time elapsed. This time is further divided by
+ the type of operation - read or write, sync or async. First two fields
+ specify the major and minor number of the device, third field
+ specifies the operation type and the fourth field specifies the
+ io_service_time in ns.
+
+- blkio.io_wait_time
+ - Total amount of time the IOs for this cgroup spent waiting in the
+ scheduler queues for service. This can be greater than the total time
+ elapsed since it is cumulative io_wait_time for all IOs. It is not a
+ measure of total time the cgroup spent waiting but rather a measure of
+ the wait_time for its individual IOs. For devices with queue_depth > 1
+ this metric does not include the time spent waiting for service once
+ the IO is dispatched to the device but till it actually gets serviced
+ (there might be a time lag here due to re-ordering of requests by the
+ device). This is in nanoseconds to make it meaningful for flash
+ devices too. This time is further divided by the type of operation -
+ read or write, sync or async. First two fields specify the major and
+ minor number of the device, third field specifies the operation type
+ and the fourth field specifies the io_wait_time in ns.
+
- blkio.dequeue
- Debugging aid only enabled if CONFIG_DEBUG_CFQ_IOSCHED=y. This
gives the statistics about how many a times a group was dequeued
@@ -99,6 +141,10 @@ Details of cgroup files
and minor number of the device and third field specifies the number
of times a group was dequeued from a particular device.
+- blkio.reset_stats
+ - Writing an int to this file will result in resetting all the stats
+ for that cgroup.
+
CFQ sysfs tunable
=================
/sys/block/<disk>/queue/iosched/group_isolation
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