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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix disk statistic reporting to include all disks
    On Tue, Aug 29 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > > This patch fixes the enhanced disk statistics to report all drives
    > > so IDE1 - IDE3 (/dev/hdc - /dev/hdh) can be monitored.
    >
    > Why not just do this right, and move the statistics into the "queue
    > structure". Get rid of that ugly kstat thing. Get rid of all the special
    > case lookups. We already need to have the queue structure to do the
    > queuing (surprise, surprise), so suddenly statistics are (a) cheap and (b)
    > right.
    >
    > So then /proc just needs to be changed to look at the queues instead of
    > looking at this kstat thing.

    Sounds sane, but what about drivers that don't really use the request
    queue structure? Stuff like lvm, md, rd (with Neil's patch to fix the
    lru_list deadlock), and probably new loop.

    Come to think of it, regular disk stat accounting doesn't work there atm
    anyway...

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    * Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
    * SuSE Labs
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