52 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Dave Chinner	028c2dd184	writeback: Add tracing to balance_dirty_pages ... Tracing high level background writeback events is good, but it doesn't give the entire picture. Add visibility into write throttling to catch IO dispatched by foreground throttling of processing dirtying lots of pages. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>	2010-08-07 18:24:25 +02:00
Dave Chinner	455b286468	writeback: Initial tracing support ... Trace queue/sched/exec parts of the writeback loop. This provides insight into when and why flusher threads are scheduled to run. e.g a sync invocation leaves traces like: sync-[...]: writeback_queue: bdi 8:0: sb_dev 8:1 nr_pages=7712 sync_mode=0 kupdate=0 range_cyclic=0 background=0 flush-8:0-[...]: writeback_exec: bdi 8:0: sb_dev 8:1 nr_pages=7712 sync_mode=0 kupdate=0 range_cyclic=0 background=0 This also lays the foundation for adding more writeback tracing to provide deeper insight into the whole writeback path. The original tracing code is from Jens Axboe, though this version is a rewrite as a result of the code being traced changing significantly. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>	2010-08-07 18:24:23 +02:00