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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-08 09:42:46 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-08 09:42:46 -0800
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: Enhanced partition statistics: documentation update Enhanced partition statistics: remove old partition statistics Enhanced partition statistics: procfs Enhanced partition statistics: sysfs Enhanced partition statistics: aoe fix Enhanced partition statistics: update partition statitics Enhanced partition statistics: core statistics block: fixup rq_init() a bit Manually fixed conflict in drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c due to statistics support.
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+What: /sys/block/<disk>/stat
+Date: February 2008
+Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
+Description:
+ The /sys/block/<disk>/stat files displays the I/O
+ statistics of disk <disk>. They contain 11 fields:
+ 1 - reads completed succesfully
+ 2 - reads merged
+ 3 - sectors read
+ 4 - time spent reading (ms)
+ 5 - writes completed
+ 6 - writes merged
+ 7 - sectors written
+ 8 - time spent writing (ms)
+ 9 - I/Os currently in progress
+ 10 - time spent doing I/Os (ms)
+ 11 - weighted time spent doing I/Os (ms)
+ For more details refer Documentation/iostats.txt
+
+
+What: /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/stat
+Date: February 2008
+Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
+Description:
+ The /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/stat files display the
+ I/O statistics of partition <part>. The format is the
+ same as the above-written /sys/block/<disk>/stat
+ format.