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Update topology comments and sysfs documentation based upon discussions with Neil Brown. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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What: /sys/block/<disk>/stat
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Date: February 2008
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Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
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Description:
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The /sys/block/<disk>/stat files displays the I/O
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statistics of disk <disk>. They contain 11 fields:
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1 - reads completed succesfully
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2 - reads merged
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3 - sectors read
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4 - time spent reading (ms)
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5 - writes completed
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6 - writes merged
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7 - sectors written
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8 - time spent writing (ms)
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9 - I/Os currently in progress
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10 - time spent doing I/Os (ms)
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11 - weighted time spent doing I/Os (ms)
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For more details refer Documentation/iostats.txt
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What: /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/stat
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Date: February 2008
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Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
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Description:
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The /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/stat files display the
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I/O statistics of partition <part>. The format is the
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same as the above-written /sys/block/<disk>/stat
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format.
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What: /sys/block/<disk>/integrity/format
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Date: June 2008
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Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Description:
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Metadata format for integrity capable block device.
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E.g. T10-DIF-TYPE1-CRC.
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What: /sys/block/<disk>/integrity/read_verify
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Date: June 2008
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Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Description:
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Indicates whether the block layer should verify the
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integrity of read requests serviced by devices that
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support sending integrity metadata.
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What: /sys/block/<disk>/integrity/tag_size
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Date: June 2008
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Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Description:
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Number of bytes of integrity tag space available per
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512 bytes of data.
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What: /sys/block/<disk>/integrity/write_generate
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Date: June 2008
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Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Description:
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Indicates whether the block layer should automatically
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generate checksums for write requests bound for
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devices that support receiving integrity metadata.
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What: /sys/block/<disk>/alignment_offset
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Date: April 2009
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Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Description:
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Storage devices may report a physical block size that is
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bigger than the logical block size (for instance a drive
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with 4KB physical sectors exposing 512-byte logical
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blocks to the operating system). This parameter
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indicates how many bytes the beginning of the device is
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offset from the disk's natural alignment.
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What: /sys/block/<disk>/<partition>/alignment_offset
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Date: April 2009
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Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Description:
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Storage devices may report a physical block size that is
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bigger than the logical block size (for instance a drive
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with 4KB physical sectors exposing 512-byte logical
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blocks to the operating system). This parameter
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indicates how many bytes the beginning of the partition
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is offset from the disk's natural alignment.
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What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/logical_block_size
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Date: May 2009
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Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Description:
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This is the smallest unit the storage device can
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address. It is typically 512 bytes.
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What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/physical_block_size
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Date: May 2009
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Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Description:
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This is the smallest unit a physical storage device can
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write atomically. It is usually the same as the logical
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block size but may be bigger. One example is SATA
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drives with 4KB sectors that expose a 512-byte logical
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block size to the operating system. For stacked block
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devices the physical_block_size variable contains the
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maximum physical_block_size of the component devices.
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What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/minimum_io_size
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Date: April 2009
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Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Description:
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Storage devices may report a granularity or preferred
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minimum I/O size which is the smallest request the
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device can perform without incurring a performance
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penalty. For disk drives this is often the physical
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block size. For RAID arrays it is often the stripe
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chunk size. A properly aligned multiple of
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minimum_io_size is the preferred request size for
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workloads where a high number of I/O operations is
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desired.
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What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/optimal_io_size
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Date: April 2009
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Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Description:
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Storage devices may report an optimal I/O size, which is
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the device's preferred unit for sustained I/O. This is
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rarely reported for disk drives. For RAID arrays it is
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usually the stripe width or the internal track size. A
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properly aligned multiple of optimal_io_size is the
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preferred request size for workloads where sustained
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throughput is desired. If no optimal I/O size is
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reported this file contains 0.
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