Re: [PATCH 1/4] block: add scalable completion tracking of requests

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Nov 02 2016 - 01:37:43 EST


On Tue, Nov 01 2016, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 03:05:22PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > For legacy block, we simply track them in the request queue. For
> > blk-mq, we track them on a per-sw queue basis, which we can then
> > sum up through the hardware queues and finally to a per device
> > state.
> >
> > The stats are tracked in, roughly, 0.1s interval windows.
> >
> > Add sysfs files to display the stats.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> [...]
>
> >
> > /* incremented at completion time */
> > unsigned long ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp rq_completed[2];
> > + struct blk_rq_stat stat[2];
>
> Can you add an enum or define for the directions? Just 0 and 1 aren't very
> intuitive.

Good point, I added that and updated both the stats patch and the
subsequent blk-mq poll code.

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Jens Axboe