Re: Disk Performance Measurements

2001-05-03 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, May 03 2001, Shaun wrote: > Again, this isn't the case in the 2.2.16 kernel I'm working with. Each > call to make_request() causes pgin/pgout to be incremented, since these > requests can be of different sizes (even for the same disk) I can't see > how a kb value can be deduced. Check if

Re: Disk Performance Measurements

2001-05-02 Thread Shaun
> > In regards to diskr/wblk, drive_stat_acct() increments the number of > > sectors/blocks read based n the values in the request being processed by > > add_request(). But add_request() is only called for requests that can't be > > merged with requests currently on the queue. Thus the counters c

Re: Disk Performance Measurements

2001-05-02 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, May 02 2001, Shaun wrote: > In regards to diskr/wblk, drive_stat_acct() increments the number of > sectors/blocks read based n the values in the request being processed by > add_request(). But add_request() is only called for requests that can't be > merged with requests currently on the q

Disk Performance Measurements

2001-05-01 Thread Shaun
Hi All, I've now been battling for several days with the kernel performance stats for disks and have come to the conclusion I need some assistance from someone with a little more understanding of the block device support in the kernel (and the kernel in general). Initially I've been looking at