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authorMichael Callahan <michaelcallahan@fb.com>2018-07-18 04:47:40 -0700
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2018-07-18 08:44:22 -0600
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block: Track DISCARD statistics and output them in stat and diskstat
Add tracking of REQ_OP_DISCARD ios to the partition statistics and append them to the various stat files in /sys as well as /proc/diskstats. These are tracked with the same four stats as reads and writes: Number of discard ios completed. Number of discard ios merged Number of discard sectors completed Milliseconds spent on discard requests This is done via adding a new STAT_DISCARD define to genhd.h and then using it to index that stat field for discard requests. tj: Refreshed on top of v4.17 and other previous updates. Signed-off-by: Michael Callahan <michaelcallahan@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Newell <newella@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/block/stat.txt28
-rw-r--r--Documentation/iostats.txt15
3 files changed, 41 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats b/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats
index f91a973a37fe..abac31d216de 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-diskstats
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Description:
The /proc/diskstats file displays the I/O statistics
of block devices. Each line contains the following 14
fields:
+
1 - major number
2 - minor mumber
3 - device name
@@ -19,4 +20,13 @@ Description:
12 - I/Os currently in progress
13 - time spent doing I/Os (ms)
14 - weighted time spent doing I/Os (ms)
+
+ Kernel 4.18+ appends four more fields for discard
+ tracking putting the total at 18:
+
+ 15 - discards completed successfully
+ 16 - discards merged
+ 17 - sectors discarded
+ 18 - time spent discarding
+
For more details refer to Documentation/iostats.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/block/stat.txt b/Documentation/block/stat.txt
index 0dbc946de2ea..0aace9cc536c 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/stat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/stat.txt
@@ -31,28 +31,32 @@ write ticks milliseconds total wait time for write requests
in_flight requests number of I/Os currently in flight
io_ticks milliseconds total time this block device has been active
time_in_queue milliseconds total wait time for all requests
+discard I/Os requests number of discard I/Os processed
+discard merges requests number of discard I/Os merged with in-queue I/O
+discard sectors sectors number of sectors discarded
+discard ticks milliseconds total wait time for discard requests
-read I/Os, write I/Os
-=====================
+read I/Os, write I/Os, discard I/0s
+===================================
These values increment when an I/O request completes.
-read merges, write merges
-=========================
+read merges, write merges, discard merges
+=========================================
These values increment when an I/O request is merged with an
already-queued I/O request.
-read sectors, write sectors
-===========================
+read sectors, write sectors, discard_sectors
+============================================
-These values count the number of sectors read from or written to this
-block device. The "sectors" in question are the standard UNIX 512-byte
-sectors, not any device- or filesystem-specific block size. The
-counters are incremented when the I/O completes.
+These values count the number of sectors read from, written to, or
+discarded from this block device. The "sectors" in question are the
+standard UNIX 512-byte sectors, not any device- or filesystem-specific
+block size. The counters are incremented when the I/O completes.
-read ticks, write ticks
-=======================
+read ticks, write ticks, discard ticks
+======================================
These values count the number of milliseconds that I/O requests have
waited on this block device. If there are multiple I/O requests waiting,
diff --git a/Documentation/iostats.txt b/Documentation/iostats.txt
index 04d394a2e06c..49df45f90e8a 100644
--- a/Documentation/iostats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/iostats.txt
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ Here are examples of these different formats::
3 0 hda 446216 784926 9550688 4382310 424847 312726 5922052 19310380 0 3376340 23705160
3 1 hda1 35486 38030 38030 38030
+ 4.18+ diskstats:
+ 3 0 hda 446216 784926 9550688 4382310 424847 312726 5922052 19310380 0 3376340 23705160 0 0 0 0
+
On 2.4 you might execute ``grep 'hda ' /proc/partitions``. On 2.6+, you have
a choice of ``cat /sys/block/hda/stat`` or ``grep 'hda ' /proc/diskstats``.
@@ -101,6 +104,18 @@ Field 11 -- weighted # of milliseconds spent doing I/Os
last update of this field. This can provide an easy measure of both
I/O completion time and the backlog that may be accumulating.
+Field 12 -- # of discards completed
+ This is the total number of discards completed successfully.
+
+Field 13 -- # of discards merged
+ See the description of field 2
+
+Field 14 -- # of sectors discarded
+ This is the total number of sectors discarded successfully.
+
+Field 15 -- # of milliseconds spent discarding
+ This is the total number of milliseconds spent by all discards (as
+ measured from __make_request() to end_that_request_last()).
To avoid introducing performance bottlenecks, no locks are held while
modifying these counters. This implies that minor inaccuracies may be