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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt index 68b6a6a470b0..12686bec37b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ Proportional weight policy files specifies the number of bytes. - blkio.io_serviced - - Number of IOs completed to/from the disk by the group. These + - Number of IOs (bio) issued to the disk by the group. These are further divided by the type of operation - read or write, sync or async. First two fields specify the major and minor number of the device, third field specifies the operation type and the fourth field @@ -327,18 +327,11 @@ Note: If both BW and IOPS rules are specified for a device, then IO is subjected to both the constraints. - blkio.throttle.io_serviced - - Number of IOs (bio) completed to/from the disk by the group (as - seen by throttling policy). These are further divided by the type - of operation - read or write, sync or async. First two fields specify - the major and minor number of the device, third field specifies the - operation type and the fourth field specifies the number of IOs. - - blkio.io_serviced does accounting as seen by CFQ and counts are in - number of requests (struct request). On the other hand, - blkio.throttle.io_serviced counts number of IO in terms of number - of bios as seen by throttling policy. These bios can later be - merged by elevator and total number of requests completed can be - lesser. + - Number of IOs (bio) issued to the disk by the group. These + are further divided by the type of operation - read or write, sync + or async. First two fields specify the major and minor number of the + device, third field specifies the operation type and the fourth field + specifies the number of IOs. - blkio.throttle.io_service_bytes - Number of bytes transferred to/from the disk by the group. These @@ -347,11 +340,6 @@ Note: If both BW and IOPS rules are specified for a device, then IO is device, third field specifies the operation type and the fourth field specifies the number of bytes. - These numbers should roughly be same as blkio.io_service_bytes as - updated by CFQ. The difference between two is that - blkio.io_service_bytes will not be updated if CFQ is not operating - on request queue. - Common files among various policies ----------------------------------- - blkio.reset_stats |