Re: [Patch 5/7] synchronous block I/O delays

Shailabh Nagar <[email protected]> writes:

> delayacct-blkio.patch
> 
> Record time spent by a task waiting for completion of 
> userspace initiated synchronous block I/O. This can help
> determine the right I/O priority for the task.

I think it's a good idea to have such a statistic by default.

Can you add a counter that is summed up in task_struct and reports
in /proc/*/stat so that it could be displayed by top? 

This way it would be useful even with "normal" user space.

-Andi
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