On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 04:41:38PM -0700, Curt Wohlgemuth wrote: > $ cat /proc/writeback/stats > call: balance_dirty_pages 2253 > call: background_writeout 45 > call: try_to_free_pages 0 > call: sync 14 > call: kupdate 228 > call: shrink_page_list 0 > call: fdatawrite 6755 > call: laptop_periodic 0 > call: free_more_memory 0 > page: balance_dirty_pages 455830 > page: background_writeout 391568 > page: try_to_free_pages 0 > page: sync 133 > page: kupdate 1158779 > page: shrink_page_list 0 > page: fdatawrite 777320 > page: laptop_periodic 0 > page: free_more_memory 0 > periodic writeback 241 > single inode wait 0 > writeback_wb wait 7 > metadata pages cleaned 19473 A fair amount of the page stats should be provided by Wu and Jan's recent patches, shouldn't they? I don't think the calls stats are such a good idea. We can triviall get these stats by using perf - just place a probe at the function and then count it using perf record. But if would be good to get the remaining page stats in, as they seems pretty useful. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
