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NAME
devstat, devstat_add_entry, devstat_end_transaction, devstat_end_transaction_bio, devstat_remove_entry,
devstat_start_transaction — kernel interface for keeping device statistics
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/devicestat.h>
void
devstat_add_entry(struct devstat *ds, const char *dev_name, int unit_number, u_int32_t block_size,
devstat_support_flags flags, devstat_type_flags device_type, devstat_priority priority);
void
devstat_remove_entry(struct devstat *ds);
void
devstat_start_transaction(struct devstat *ds);
void
devstat_end_transaction(struct devstat *ds, u_int32_t bytes, devstat_tag_type tag_type,
devstat_trans_flags flags);
void
devstat_end_transaction_bio(struct devstat *ds, struct bio *bp);
DESCRIPTION
The devstat subsystem is an interface for recording device statistics, as its name implies. The idea is
to keep reasonably detailed statistics while utilizing a minimum amount of CPU time to record them.
Thus, no statistical calculations are actually performed in the kernel portion of the devstat code.
Instead, that is left for user programs to handle.
devstat_add_entry() registers a device with the devstat subsystem. The caller is expected to have
already allocated and zeroed the devstat structure before calling this function. devstat_add_entry()
takes several arguments:
ds The devstat structure, allocated and zeroed by the client.
dev_name The device name, e.g. da, cd, sa.
unit_number Device unit number.
block_size Block size of the device, if supported. If the device does not support a block size, or if
the blocksize is unknown at the time the device is added to the devstat list, it should be
set to 0.
flags Flags indicating operations supported or not supported by the device. See below for
details.
device_type The device type. This is broken into three sections: base device type (e.g. direct access,
CDROM, sequential access), interface type (IDE, SCSI or other) and a pass-through flag to
indicate pas-through devices. See below for a complete list of types.
priority The device priority. The priority is used to determine how devices are sorted within
devstat's list of devices. Devices are sorted first by priority (highest to lowest), and
then by attach order. See below for a complete list of available priorities.
devstat_remove_entry() removes a device from the devstat subsystem. It takes the devstat structure for
the device in question as an argument. The devstat generation number is incremented and the number of
devices is decremented.
devstat_start_transaction() registers the start of a transaction with the devstat subsystem. The busy
count is incremented with each transaction start. When a device goes from idle to busy, the system
uptime is recorded in the start_time field of the devstat structure.
devstat_end_transaction() registers the end of a transaction with the devstat subsystem. It takes four
arguments:
ds The devstat structure for the device in question.
bytes The number of bytes transferred in this transaction.
tag_type Transaction tag type. See below for tag types.
flags Transaction flags indicating whether the transaction was a read, write, or whether no data was
transferred.
devstat_end_transaction_bio() is a wrapper for devstat_end_transaction() which pulls all the information
from a struct bio which is ready for biodone().
The devstat structure is composed of the following fields:
dev_links Each devstat structure is placed in a linked list when it is registered. The
dev_links field contains a pointer to the next entry in the list of devstat
structures.
device_number The device number is a unique identifier for each device. The device number is
incremented for each new device that is registered. The device number is currently
only a 32-bit integer, but it could be enlarged if someone has a system with more than
four billion device arrival events.
device_name The device name is a text string given by the registering driver to identify itself.
(e.g. “da”, “cd”, “sa”, etc.)
unit_number The unit number identifies the particular instance of the peripheral driver in
question.
bytes_written This is the number of bytes that have been written to the device. This number is
currently an unsigned 64 bit integer. This will hopefully eliminate the counter wrap
that would come very quickly on some systems if 32 bit integers were used.
bytes_read This is the number of bytes that have been read from the device.
bytes_freed This is the number of bytes that have been freed/erased on the device.
num_reads This is the number of reads from the device.
num_writes This is the number of writes to the device.
num_frees This is the number of free/erase operations on the device.
num_other This is the number of transactions to the device which are neither reads or writes.
For instance, SCSI drivers often send a test unit ready command to SCSI devices. The
test unit ready command does not read or write any data. It merely causes the device
to return its status.
busy_count This is the current number of outstanding transactions for the device. This should
never go below zero, and on an idle device it should be zero. If either one of these
conditions is not true, it indicates a problem in the way devstat_start_transaction()
and devstat_end_transaction() are being called in client code. There should be one
and only one transaction start event and one transaction end event for each
transaction.
block_size This is the block size of the device, if the device has a block size.
tag_types This is an array of counters to record the number of various tag types that are sent
to a device. See below for a list of tag types.
dev_creation_time This is the time, as reported by getmicrotime() that the device was registered.
busy_time This is the amount of time that the device busy count has been greater than zero.
This is only updated when the busy count returns to zero.
start_time This is the time, as reported by getmicrouptime() that the device busy count went from
zero to one.
last_comp_time This is the time as reported by getmicrouptime() that a transaction last completed.
It is used along with start_time to calculate the device busy time.
flags These flags indicate which statistics measurements are supported by a particular
device. These flags are primarily intended to serve as an aid to userland programs
that decipher the statistics.
device_type This is the device type. It consists of three parts: the device type (e.g. direct
access, CDROM, sequential access, etc.), the interface (IDE, SCSI or other) and
whether or not the device in question is a pass-through driver. See below for a
complete list of device types.
priority This is the priority. This is the first parameter used to determine where to insert a
device in the devstat list. The second parameter is attach order. See below for a
list of available priorities.
Each device is given a device type. Pass-through devices have the same underlying device type and
interface as the device they provide an interface for, but they also have the pass-through flag set. The
base device types are identical to the SCSI device type numbers, so with SCSI peripherals, the device
type returned from an inquiry is usually ORed with the SCSI interface type and the pass-through flag if
appropriate. The device type flags are as follows:
typedef enum {
DEVSTAT_TYPE_DIRECT = 0x000,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_SEQUENTIAL = 0x001,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_PRINTER = 0x002,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_PROCESSOR = 0x003,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_WORM = 0x004,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_CDROM = 0x005,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_SCANNER = 0x006,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_OPTICAL = 0x007,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_CHANGER = 0x008,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_COMM = 0x009,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_ASC0 = 0x00a,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_ASC1 = 0x00b,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_STORARRAY = 0x00c,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_ENCLOSURE = 0x00d,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_FLOPPY = 0x00e,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_MASK = 0x00f,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_IF_SCSI = 0x010,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_IF_IDE = 0x020,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_IF_OTHER = 0x030,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_IF_MASK = 0x0f0,
DEVSTAT_TYPE_PASS = 0x100
} devstat_type_flags;
Devices have a priority associated with them, which controls roughly where they are placed in the devstat
list. The priorities are as follows:
typedef enum {
DEVSTAT_PRIORITY_MIN = 0x000,
DEVSTAT_PRIORITY_OTHER = 0x020,
DEVSTAT_PRIORITY_PASS = 0x030,
DEVSTAT_PRIORITY_FD = 0x040,
DEVSTAT_PRIORITY_WFD = 0x050,
DEVSTAT_PRIORITY_TAPE = 0x060,
DEVSTAT_PRIORITY_CD = 0x090,
DEVSTAT_PRIORITY_DISK = 0x110,
DEVSTAT_PRIORITY_ARRAY = 0x120,
DEVSTAT_PRIORITY_MAX = 0xfff
} devstat_priority;
Each device has associated with it flags to indicate what operations are supported or not supported. The
devstat_support_flags values are as follows:
DEVSTAT_ALL_SUPPORTED Every statistic type is supported by the device.
DEVSTAT_NO_BLOCKSIZE This device does not have a blocksize.
DEVSTAT_NO_ORDERED_TAGS This device does not support ordered tags.
DEVSTAT_BS_UNAVAILABLE This device supports a blocksize, but it is currently unavailable. This flag is
most often used with removable media drives.
Transactions to a device fall into one of three categories, which are represented in the flags passed
into devstat_end_transaction(). The transaction types are as follows:
typedef enum {
DEVSTAT_NO_DATA = 0x00,
DEVSTAT_READ = 0x01,
DEVSTAT_WRITE = 0x02,
DEVSTAT_FREE = 0x03
} devstat_trans_flags;
There are four possible values for the tag_type argument to devstat_end_transaction():
DEVSTAT_TAG_SIMPLE The transaction had a simple tag.
DEVSTAT_TAG_HEAD The transaction had a head of queue tag.
DEVSTAT_TAG_ORDERED The transaction had an ordered tag.
DEVSTAT_TAG_NONE The device does not support tags.
The tag type values correspond to the lower four bits of the SCSI tag definitions. In CAM, for instance,
the tag_action from the CCB is ORed with 0xf to determine the tag type to pass in to
devstat_end_transaction().
There is a macro, DEVSTAT_VERSION that is defined in <sys/devicestat.h>. This is the current version of
the devstat subsystem, and it should be incremented each time a change is made that would require
recompilation of userland programs that access devstat statistics. Userland programs use this version,
via the kern.devstat.version sysctl variable to determine whether they are in sync with the kernel
devstat structures.
SEE ALSO
systat(1), devstat(3), iostat(8), rpc.rstatd(8), vmstat(8)
HISTORY
The devstat statistics system appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.
AUTHORS
Kenneth Merry <ken@FreeBSD.org>
BUGS
There may be a need for spl() protection around some of the devstat list manipulation code to ensure, for
example, that the list of devices is not changed while someone is fetching the kern.devstat.all sysctl
variable.
It is impossible with the current devstat architecture to accurately measure time per transaction. The
only feasible way to accurately measure time per transaction would be to record a timestamp for every
transaction. This measurement is probably not worthwhile for most people as it would adversely affect
the performance of the system and cost space to store the timestamps for individual transactions.
Debian May 22, 1998 DEVSTAT(9)