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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst index 5d63b18bd6d1..4f0462af3ca7 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst @@ -121,6 +121,15 @@ Field 15 -- # of milliseconds spent discarding This is the total number of milliseconds spent by all discards (as measured from __make_request() to end_that_request_last()). +Field 16 -- # of flush requests completed + This is the total number of flush requests completed successfully. + + Block layer combines flush requests and executes at most one at a time. + This counts flush requests executed by disk. Not tracked for partitions. + +Field 17 -- # of milliseconds spent flushing + This is the total number of milliseconds spent by all flush requests. + To avoid introducing performance bottlenecks, no locks are held while modifying these counters. This implies that minor inaccuracies may be introduced when changes collide, so (for instance) adding up all the |
