2010-04-05 14:20:50

by Manuel Benitez

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Expose the statistics in blkio.time and blkio.sectors for the root cgroup

Jens,

Please let me know if this patch is/isn't acceptable. Not having the
statistics exposed at the root is a little bit problematic for our
user-level control programs.

-Ricky

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 04:35:56PM -0700, Ricky Benitez wrote:
>> Currently, the io statistics for the root cgroup are maintained, but
>> they are not shown because the device information is not available at
>> the point that the root blkio cgroup is created. This patch updates
>> the device information when the statistics are updated so that the
>> statistics become visible.
>>
>
> Ok, root group is created when request queue is being initialized and
> device information like major/minor number is not available. This is
> not the cleanest solution but can't think of something better right now.
>
> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
>
> Thanks
> Vivek
>
>> Signed-off-by: Ricky Benitez <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> ?block/cfq-iosched.c | ? ?5 +++++
>> ?1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
>> index dee9d93..4a3579a 100644
>> --- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
>> +++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
>> @@ -947,6 +947,11 @@ cfq_find_alloc_cfqg(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cgroup *cgroup, int create)
>> ? ? ? unsigned int major, minor;
>>
>> ? ? ? cfqg = cfqg_of_blkg(blkiocg_lookup_group(blkcg, key));
>> + ? ? if (cfqg && !cfqg->blkg.dev && bdi->dev && dev_name(bdi->dev)) {
>> + ? ? ? ? ? ? sscanf(dev_name(bdi->dev), "%u:%u", &major, &minor);
>> + ? ? ? ? ? ? cfqg->blkg.dev = MKDEV(major, minor);
>> + ? ? ? ? ? ? goto done;
>> + ? ? }
>> ? ? ? if (cfqg || !create)
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? goto done;
>>
>> --
>> 1.7.0.1
>


2010-04-05 16:20:46

by Jens Axboe

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Expose the statistics in blkio.time and blkio.sectors for the root cgroup

On Mon, Apr 05 2010, Manuel Benitez wrote:
> Jens,
>
> Please let me know if this patch is/isn't acceptable. Not having the
> statistics exposed at the root is a little bit problematic for our
> user-level control programs.

It's fine with me, I'll queue it up.

--
Jens Axboe