On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 07:56:58AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 02:12:46PM -0400, Brian Foster wrote: > > Create sysfs attributes to export the current runtime state of the log > > to userspace. Note that the filesystem should be frozen for best > > accuracy/consistency when reading these values, but is not required. > > This is for testing and debug purposes only. > > > > Create the following per-mount attributes: log_head_lsn, log_tail_lsn, > > reserve_head_lsn and write_head_lsn. These represent the physical log > > Reserve and write heads are not log sequence numbers (LSNs). A LSN > is a cycle:block count tuple, while a grant head is a cycle:byte > count tuple.... > Yeah, I suppose that's some terminology abuse... ;) > Calling the reserve_grant_head/write_grant_head would make more > sense, I think, as would splitting them into cycle/byte output > pairs. Splitting them make sense because if we increase the log size > beyond 2GB we're going to need a different in-memory representation > for the grant heads (i.e. need more than 32 bits for byte count), so > we should probably handle that up front in the sysfs API... > Ok. reserve_grant_head and write_grant_head in the decimal format of "cycle:bytes" it is. I'll leave the names of the others and convert them to a similar "cycle:blocks" format. Thanks! Brian > Cheers, > > Dave. > -- > Dave Chinner > david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
