[PATCH] block: add documentation for inflight

[PATCH] block: add documentation for inflight

[Steffen Maier]

Complements v2.6.32 commit a9327cac440b ("Seperate read and write
statistics of in_flight requests") and commit 316d315bffa4 ("block:
Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests v2").

Signed-off-by: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.ibm.com>
---
 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
index a0ed87386639..b16b0c45a272 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
@@ -28,6 +28,22 @@ Description:
 		For more details refer Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst
 
 
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/inflight
+Date:		October 2009
+Contact:	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
+Description:
+		Reports the number of I/O requests currently in progress
+		(pending / in flight) in a device driver. This can be less
+		than the number of requests queued in the block device queue.
+		The report contains 2 fields: one for read requests
+		and one for write requests.
+		The value type is unsigned int.
+		Cf. Documentation/block/stat.rst which contains a single value for
+		requests in flight.
+		This is related to nr_requests in Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.rst
+		and for SCSI device also its queue_depth.
+
+
 What:		/sys/block/<disk>/diskseq
 Date:		February 2021
 Contact:	Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>
-- 
2.27.0

Re: [PATCH] block: add documentation for inflight

[Jens Axboe]

On 10/19/21 7:02 AM, Steffen Maier wrote:
> Complements v2.6.32 commit a9327cac440b ("Seperate read and write
> statistics of in_flight requests") and commit 316d315bffa4 ("block:
> Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests v2").

Jon, probably better if you take this through the doc tree. You can
add my:

Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

-- 
Jens Axboe

Re: [PATCH] block: add documentation for inflight

[Jonathan Corbet]

Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> writes:

> On 10/19/21 7:02 AM, Steffen Maier wrote:
>> Complements v2.6.32 commit a9327cac440b ("Seperate read and write
>> statistics of in_flight requests") and commit 316d315bffa4 ("block:
>> Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests v2").
>
> Jon, probably better if you take this through the doc tree. You can
> add my:
>
> Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Done.

Thanks,

jon