On Sat, Dec 10 2005, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> I couldn't find any docs explaining the contents of
> /sys/block/<dev>/stat, so I wrote up the following. I'm not completely
> sure it's accurate - Jens, could you give a yea or nay on this?
>
> In particular, the counts of read/write IOs and read/write sectors are
> incremented in different places - it looks like they both increment as
> the request is being finished, but I'm not completely sure of that.
Overall it looks very nice, you basically all of it right. And thanks
for doing it btw, it's a good addition to the documentation. A few small
comments follows:
> +Name units description
> +---- ----- -----------
> +read I/Os requests number of read I/Os processed
> +read merges requests number of read I/Os merged with in-queue I/O
> +read sectors blocks number of sectors read
The unit here should just read 'sectors', blocks usually refers to a
file system block.
> +read I/Os, write I/Os
> +=====================
> +
> +These values increment when an I/O request completes.
> +
> +read merges, write merges
> +=========================
> +
> +These values increment when an I/O request is merged with an
> +already-queued I/O request.
Both correct, good!
> +read sectors, write sectors
> +===========================
> +
> +These values count the number of blocks read from or written to this
> +block device. The "blocks" in question are the standard UNIX 512-byte
> +blocks, not any device-specific block size. The counters are
> +incremented when the I/O completes.
These standard 512-b blocks we just call sectors in Linux.
> +in_flight
> +=========
> +
> +This value counts the number of currently-queued I/O requests.
A little confusing - it's the number of in flight io at the
driver/device end, that is after the block layer. One could read the
above as total in flight (total queued in the queue for the device),
which is a very different number.
--
Jens Axboe
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