Hi Arjan, LatencyTOP says that sync_page is 'Writing a page to disk', however I see that even when no writes are involved, such as during a readdir, lseek, etc. Naming it a write is misleading, as no program is running that is doing constant writes to the disk. The only program is writing to a temp dir in /dev/shm.
What would be a better description for sync_page? Here are some /proc/latency_stats containing sync_page: 125 6937678 210821 sync_page sync_page_killable sync_page_killable __lock_page_killable wake_bit_function generic_file_aio_read get_unused_fd_flags path_walk do_sync_read autoremove_wake_function security_file_permission rw_verify_area 306 5677749 215746 sync_page sync_page_killable sync_page_killable __lock_page_killable wake_bit_function generic_file_aio_read do_sync_read autoremove_wake_function security_file_permission rw_verify_area vfs_read vfs_llseek 21 435657 59966 sync_page sync_page __lock_page wake_bit_function read_cache_page_async ntfs_readpage read_cache_page map_mft_record ntfs_read_locked_inode ntfs_alloc_big_inode iget5_locked ntfs_test_inode 195 2716409 133660 blk_unplug sync_page sync_page __lock_page wake_bit_function read_cache_page_async ntfs_readpage read_cache_page map_mft_record ntfs_read_locked_inode ntfs_alloc_big_inode iget5_locked 28 1881278 181986 add_to_page_cache_lru sync_page sync_page_killable sync_page_killable __lock_page_killable wake_bit_function generic_file_aio_read get_unused_fd_flags path_walk do_sync_read autoremove_wake_function security_file_permission 2 17132 9746 add_to_page_cache_lru sync_page sync_page_killable sync_page_killable __lock_page_killable wake_bit_function generic_file_aio_read do_sync_read autoremove_wake_function security_file_permission rw_verify_area vfs_read 1 70 70 irq_exit sync_page sync_page_killable sync_page_killable __lock_page_killable wake_bit_function generic_file_aio_read do_sync_read autoremove_wake_function security_file_permission rw_verify_area vfs_read 23 306682 114514 blk_unplug sync_page sync_page_killable sync_page_killable __lock_page_killable wake_bit_function generic_file_aio_read do_sync_read autoremove_wake_function security_file_permission rw_verify_area vfs_read 1 153 153 hrtimer_interrupt smp_apic_timer_interrupt sync_page sync_page_killable sync_page_killable __lock_page_killable wake_bit_function generic_file_aio_read do_sync_read autoremove_wake_function cfq_idle_slice_timer security_file_permission Thanks, --Edwin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
