On Tue, Dec 13 2005, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> > > +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.
>
> I wrote from misunderstanding, so it's no suprise what I wrote was
> wrong. :) Is "number of requests in the queue" available somewhere?
Nope, it's only accounted internally I'm afraid. It's somewhere between
0 and ~ /sys/block/<dev>/queue/nr_requests (it can go a little higher
than this value, hence approximately).
> How does this sound instead of the above?
>
> +in_flight
> +=========
> +
> +This value counts the number of I/O requests that have been issued to
> +the device driver but have not yet completed. It does not include I/O
> +requests that are in the queue but not yet issued to the device driver.
That is perfect, thanks.
--
Jens Axboe
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