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diff --git a/Documentation/block/stat.rst b/Documentation/block/stat.rst index 9c07bc22b0bc..77311335c08b 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/stat.rst +++ b/Documentation/block/stat.rst @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ discard I/Os requests number of discard I/Os processed discard merges requests number of discard I/Os merged with in-queue I/O discard sectors sectors number of sectors discarded discard ticks milliseconds total wait time for discard requests +flush I/Os requests number of flush I/Os processed +flush ticks milliseconds total wait time for flush requests =============== ============= ================================================= read I/Os, write I/Os, discard I/0s @@ -48,6 +50,14 @@ read I/Os, write I/Os, discard I/0s These values increment when an I/O request completes. +flush I/Os +========== + +These values increment when an flush I/O request completes. + +Block layer combines flush requests and executes at most one at a time. +This counts flush requests executed by disk. Not tracked for partitions. + read merges, write merges, discard merges ========================================= @@ -62,8 +72,8 @@ discarded from this block device. The "sectors" in question are the standard UNIX 512-byte sectors, not any device- or filesystem-specific block size. The counters are incremented when the I/O completes. -read ticks, write ticks, discard ticks -====================================== +read ticks, write ticks, discard ticks, flush ticks +=================================================== These values count the number of milliseconds that I/O requests have waited on this block device. If there are multiple I/O requests waiting, |