Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:24:37 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix disk statistic reporting to include all disks |
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On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30 2000, Jens Axboe wrote: > > 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. > > Of course lvm and md get statistics accounted for the low devices...
No, I think you actually want to double-count here: I think it is sensible to have both a low-level statistics _and_ a "md" statistic. It could be useful for showing clearly how the requests are distributed.
Linus
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