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Gao Mingfei
e53eeac9a9 docs: block: fix stat.rst document error
Update the description of the device stat files to include the proper
number of fields.

Signed-off-by: Gao Mingfei <g199209@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210601085145.3273-1-g199209@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-06-04 11:23:36 -06:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov
b686631865 block: add iostat counters for flush requests
Requests that triggers flushing volatile writeback cache to disk (barriers)
have significant effect to overall performance.

Block layer has sophisticated engine for combining several flush requests
into one. But there is no statistics for actual flushes executed by disk.
Requests which trigger flushes usually are barriers - zero-size writes.

This patch adds two iostat counters into /sys/class/block/$dev/stat and
/proc/diskstats - count of completed flush requests and their total time.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-11-21 09:06:47 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
898bd37a92 docs: block: convert to ReST
Rename the block documentation files to ReST, add an
index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html
output via the Sphinx build system.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15 09:20:27 -03:00
Renamed from Documentation/block/stat.txt (Browse further)