blk-mq: remove hybrid polling
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1What: /sys/block/<disk>/alignment_offset
2Date: April 2009
3Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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5 Storage devices may report a physical block size that is
6 bigger than the logical block size (for instance a drive
7 with 4KB physical sectors exposing 512-byte logical
8 blocks to the operating system). This parameter
9 indicates how many bytes the beginning of the device is
10 offset from the disk's natural alignment.
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13What: /sys/block/<disk>/discard_alignment
14Date: May 2011
15Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
16Description:
17 Devices that support discard functionality may
18 internally allocate space in units that are bigger than
19 the exported logical block size. The discard_alignment
20 parameter indicates how many bytes the beginning of the
21 device is offset from the internal allocation unit's
22 natural alignment.
23
24
25What: /sys/block/<disk>/diskseq
26Date: February 2021
27Contact: Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>
28Description:
29 The /sys/block/<disk>/diskseq files reports the disk
30 sequence number, which is a monotonically increasing
31 number assigned to every drive.
32 Some devices, like the loop device, refresh such number
33 every time the backing file is changed.
34 The value type is 64 bit unsigned.
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37What: /sys/block/<disk>/inflight
38Date: October 2009
39Contact: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
40Description:
41 Reports the number of I/O requests currently in progress
42 (pending / in flight) in a device driver. This can be less
43 than the number of requests queued in the block device queue.
44 The report contains 2 fields: one for read requests
45 and one for write requests.
46 The value type is unsigned int.
47 Cf. Documentation/block/stat.rst which contains a single value for
48 requests in flight.
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50 and for SCSI device also its queue_depth.
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53What: /sys/block/<disk>/integrity/device_is_integrity_capable
54Date: July 2014
55Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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57 Indicates whether a storage device is capable of storing
58 integrity metadata. Set if the device is T10 PI-capable.
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61What: /sys/block/<disk>/integrity/format
62Date: June 2008
63Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
64Description:
65 Metadata format for integrity capable block device.
66 E.g. T10-DIF-TYPE1-CRC.
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69What: /sys/block/<disk>/integrity/protection_interval_bytes
70Date: July 2015
71Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
72Description:
73 Describes the number of data bytes which are protected
74 by one integrity tuple. Typically the device's logical
75 block size.
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78What: /sys/block/<disk>/integrity/read_verify
79Date: June 2008
80Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
81Description:
82 Indicates whether the block layer should verify the
83 integrity of read requests serviced by devices that
84 support sending integrity metadata.
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87What: /sys/block/<disk>/integrity/tag_size
88Date: June 2008
89Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
90Description:
91 Number of bytes of integrity tag space available per
92 512 bytes of data.
93
94
95What: /sys/block/<disk>/integrity/write_generate
96Date: June 2008
97Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
98Description:
99 Indicates whether the block layer should automatically
100 generate checksums for write requests bound for
101 devices that support receiving integrity metadata.
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104What: /sys/block/<disk>/<partition>/alignment_offset
105Date: April 2009
106Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
107Description:
108 Storage devices may report a physical block size that is
109 bigger than the logical block size (for instance a drive
110 with 4KB physical sectors exposing 512-byte logical
111 blocks to the operating system). This parameter
112 indicates how many bytes the beginning of the partition
113 is offset from the disk's natural alignment.
114
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116What: /sys/block/<disk>/<partition>/discard_alignment
117Date: May 2011
118Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
119Description:
120 Devices that support discard functionality may
121 internally allocate space in units that are bigger than
122 the exported logical block size. The discard_alignment
123 parameter indicates how many bytes the beginning of the
124 partition is offset from the internal allocation unit's
125 natural alignment.
126
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128What: /sys/block/<disk>/<partition>/stat
129Date: February 2008
130Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
131Description:
132 The /sys/block/<disk>/<partition>/stat files display the
133 I/O statistics of partition <partition>. The format is the
134 same as the format of /sys/block/<disk>/stat.
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137What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/add_random
138Date: June 2010
139Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
140Description:
141 [RW] This file allows to turn off the disk entropy contribution.
142 Default value of this file is '1'(on).
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145What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/chunk_sectors
146Date: September 2016
147Contact: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
148Description:
849ab826 149 [RO] chunk_sectors has different meaning depending on the type
07c9093c 150 of the disk. For a RAID device (dm-raid), chunk_sectors
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151 indicates the size in 512B sectors of the RAID volume stripe
152 segment. For a zoned block device, either host-aware or
153 host-managed, chunk_sectors indicates the size in 512B sectors
154 of the zones of the device, with the eventual exception of the
155 last zone of the device which may be smaller.
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158What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/crypto/
159Date: February 2022
160Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
161Description:
162 The presence of this subdirectory of /sys/block/<disk>/queue/
163 indicates that the device supports inline encryption. This
164 subdirectory contains files which describe the inline encryption
165 capabilities of the device. For more information about inline
166 encryption, refer to Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst.
167
168
169What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/crypto/max_dun_bits
170Date: February 2022
171Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
172Description:
173 [RO] This file shows the maximum length, in bits, of data unit
174 numbers accepted by the device in inline encryption requests.
175
176
177What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/crypto/modes/<mode>
178Date: February 2022
179Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
180Description:
181 [RO] For each crypto mode (i.e., encryption/decryption
182 algorithm) the device supports with inline encryption, a file
183 will exist at this location. It will contain a hexadecimal
184 number that is a bitmask of the supported data unit sizes, in
185 bytes, for that crypto mode.
186
187 Currently, the crypto modes that may be supported are:
188
189 * AES-256-XTS
190 * AES-128-CBC-ESSIV
191 * Adiantum
192
193 For example, if a device supports AES-256-XTS inline encryption
194 with data unit sizes of 512 and 4096 bytes, the file
195 /sys/block/<disk>/queue/crypto/modes/AES-256-XTS will exist and
196 will contain "0x1200".
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199What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/crypto/num_keyslots
200Date: February 2022
201Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
202Description:
203 [RO] This file shows the number of keyslots the device has for
204 use with inline encryption.
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207What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/dax
208Date: June 2016
209Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
210Description:
211 [RO] This file indicates whether the device supports Direct
212 Access (DAX), used by CPU-addressable storage to bypass the
213 pagecache. It shows '1' if true, '0' if not.
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216What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/discard_granularity
217Date: May 2011
218Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
219Description:
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220 [RO] Devices that support discard functionality may internally
221 allocate space using units that are bigger than the logical
222 block size. The discard_granularity parameter indicates the size
223 of the internal allocation unit in bytes if reported by the
224 device. Otherwise the discard_granularity will be set to match
225 the device's physical block size. A discard_granularity of 0
226 means that the device does not support discard functionality.
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229What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/discard_max_bytes
230Date: May 2011
231Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
232Description:
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233 [RW] While discard_max_hw_bytes is the hardware limit for the
234 device, this setting is the software limit. Some devices exhibit
235 large latencies when large discards are issued, setting this
236 value lower will make Linux issue smaller discards and
237 potentially help reduce latencies induced by large discard
238 operations.
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241What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/discard_max_hw_bytes
242Date: July 2015
243Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
244Description:
245 [RO] Devices that support discard functionality may have
246 internal limits on the number of bytes that can be trimmed or
247 unmapped in a single operation. The `discard_max_hw_bytes`
248 parameter is set by the device driver to the maximum number of
249 bytes that can be discarded in a single operation. Discard
250 requests issued to the device must not exceed this limit. A
251 `discard_max_hw_bytes` value of 0 means that the device does not
252 support discard functionality.
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255What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/discard_zeroes_data
256Date: May 2011
257Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
258Description:
849ab826 259 [RO] Will always return 0. Don't rely on any specific behavior
48920ff2 260 for discards, and don't read this file.
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263What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/dma_alignment
264Date: May 2022
265Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
266Description:
267 Reports the alignment that user space addresses must have to be
268 used for raw block device access with O_DIRECT and other driver
269 specific passthrough mechanisms.
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272What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/fua
273Date: May 2018
274Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
275Description:
276 [RO] Whether or not the block driver supports the FUA flag for
277 write requests. FUA stands for Force Unit Access. If the FUA
278 flag is set that means that write requests must bypass the
279 volatile cache of the storage device.
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282What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/hw_sector_size
283Date: January 2008
284Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
285Description:
286 [RO] This is the hardware sector size of the device, in bytes.
287
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289What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/independent_access_ranges/
290Date: October 2021
291Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
292Description:
293 [RO] The presence of this sub-directory of the
294 /sys/block/xxx/queue/ directory indicates that the device is
295 capable of executing requests targeting different sector ranges
296 in parallel. For instance, single LUN multi-actuator hard-disks
297 will have an independent_access_ranges directory if the device
298 correctly advertizes the sector ranges of its actuators.
299
300 The independent_access_ranges directory contains one directory
301 per access range, with each range described using the sector
302 (RO) attribute file to indicate the first sector of the range
303 and the nr_sectors (RO) attribute file to indicate the total
304 number of sectors in the range starting from the first sector of
305 the range. For example, a dual-actuator hard-disk will have the
306 following independent_access_ranges entries.::
307
308 $ tree /sys/block/<disk>/queue/independent_access_ranges/
309 /sys/block/<disk>/queue/independent_access_ranges/
310 |-- 0
311 | |-- nr_sectors
312 | `-- sector
313 `-- 1
314 |-- nr_sectors
315 `-- sector
316
317 The sector and nr_sectors attributes use 512B sector unit,
318 regardless of the actual block size of the device. Independent
319 access ranges do not overlap and include all sectors within the
320 device capacity. The access ranges are numbered in increasing
321 order of the range start sector, that is, the sector attribute
322 of range 0 always has the value 0.
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324
325What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/io_poll
326Date: November 2015
327Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
328Description:
329 [RW] When read, this file shows whether polling is enabled (1)
330 or disabled (0). Writing '0' to this file will disable polling
331 for this device. Writing any non-zero value will enable this
332 feature.
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335What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/io_poll_delay
336Date: November 2016
337Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
338Description:
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339 [RW] This was used to control what kind of polling will be
340 performed. It is now fixed to -1, which is classic polling.
849ab826 341 In this mode, the CPU will repeatedly ask for completions
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342 without giving up any time.
343 <deprecated>
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346What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/io_timeout
347Date: November 2018
348Contact: Weiping Zhang <zhangweiping@didiglobal.com>
349Description:
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350 [RW] io_timeout is the request timeout in milliseconds. If a
351 request does not complete in this time then the block driver
352 timeout handler is invoked. That timeout handler can decide to
353 retry the request, to fail it or to start a device recovery
354 strategy.
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357What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/iostats
358Date: January 2009
359Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
360Description:
361 [RW] This file is used to control (on/off) the iostats
362 accounting of the disk.
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365What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/logical_block_size
366Date: May 2009
367Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
368Description:
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369 [RO] This is the smallest unit the storage device can address.
370 It is typically 512 bytes.
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373What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/max_active_zones
374Date: July 2020
375Contact: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>
376Description:
849ab826 377 [RO] For zoned block devices (zoned attribute indicating
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378 "host-managed" or "host-aware"), the sum of zones belonging to
379 any of the zone states: EXPLICIT OPEN, IMPLICIT OPEN or CLOSED,
380 is limited by this value. If this value is 0, there is no limit.
381
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382 If the host attempts to exceed this limit, the driver should
383 report this error with BLK_STS_ZONE_ACTIVE_RESOURCE, which user
384 space may see as the EOVERFLOW errno.
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387What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/max_discard_segments
388Date: February 2017
389Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
390Description:
391 [RO] The maximum number of DMA scatter/gather entries in a
392 discard request.
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395What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb
396Date: September 2004
397Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
398Description:
399 [RO] This is the maximum number of kilobytes supported in a
400 single data transfer.
401
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403What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/max_integrity_segments
404Date: September 2010
405Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
406Description:
407 [RO] Maximum number of elements in a DMA scatter/gather list
408 with integrity data that will be submitted by the block layer
409 core to the associated block driver.
410
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412What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/max_open_zones
413Date: July 2020
414Contact: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>
415Description:
849ab826 416 [RO] For zoned block devices (zoned attribute indicating
07c9093c 417 "host-managed" or "host-aware"), the sum of zones belonging to
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418 any of the zone states: EXPLICIT OPEN or IMPLICIT OPEN, is
419 limited by this value. If this value is 0, there is no limit.
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422What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/max_sectors_kb
423Date: September 2004
424Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
425Description:
426 [RW] This is the maximum number of kilobytes that the block
427 layer will allow for a filesystem request. Must be smaller than
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428 or equal to the maximum size allowed by the hardware. Write 0
429 to use default kernel settings.
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432What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/max_segment_size
433Date: March 2010
434Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
435Description:
436 [RO] Maximum size in bytes of a single element in a DMA
437 scatter/gather list.
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440What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/max_segments
441Date: March 2010
442Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
443Description:
444 [RO] Maximum number of elements in a DMA scatter/gather list
445 that is submitted to the associated block driver.
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448What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/minimum_io_size
449Date: April 2009
450Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
451Description:
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452 [RO] Storage devices may report a granularity or preferred
453 minimum I/O size which is the smallest request the device can
454 perform without incurring a performance penalty. For disk
455 drives this is often the physical block size. For RAID arrays
456 it is often the stripe chunk size. A properly aligned multiple
457 of minimum_io_size is the preferred request size for workloads
458 where a high number of I/O operations is desired.
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461What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/nomerges
462Date: January 2010
8b0551a7 463Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
07c9093c 464Description:
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465 [RW] Standard I/O elevator operations include attempts to merge
466 contiguous I/Os. For known random I/O loads these attempts will
467 always fail and result in extra cycles being spent in the
468 kernel. This allows one to turn off this behavior on one of two
469 ways: When set to 1, complex merge checks are disabled, but the
470 simple one-shot merges with the previous I/O request are
471 enabled. When set to 2, all merge tries are disabled. The
472 default value is 0 - which enables all types of merge tries.
473
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475What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/nr_requests
476Date: July 2003
477Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
478Description:
479 [RW] This controls how many requests may be allocated in the
480 block layer for read or write requests. Note that the total
481 allocated number may be twice this amount, since it applies only
482 to reads or writes (not the accumulated sum).
483
484 To avoid priority inversion through request starvation, a
485 request queue maintains a separate request pool per each cgroup
486 when CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP is enabled, and this parameter applies to
487 each such per-block-cgroup request pool. IOW, if there are N
488 block cgroups, each request queue may have up to N request
489 pools, each independently regulated by nr_requests.
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492What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/nr_zones
493Date: November 2018
494Contact: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
495Description:
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496 [RO] nr_zones indicates the total number of zones of a zoned
497 block device ("host-aware" or "host-managed" zone model). For
498 regular block devices, the value is always 0.
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501What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/optimal_io_size
502Date: April 2009
503Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
504Description:
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505 [RO] Storage devices may report an optimal I/O size, which is
506 the device's preferred unit for sustained I/O. This is rarely
507 reported for disk drives. For RAID arrays it is usually the
508 stripe width or the internal track size. A properly aligned
509 multiple of optimal_io_size is the preferred request size for
510 workloads where sustained throughput is desired. If no optimal
511 I/O size is reported this file contains 0.
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514What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/physical_block_size
515Date: May 2009
516Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
517Description:
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518 [RO] This is the smallest unit a physical storage device can
519 write atomically. It is usually the same as the logical block
520 size but may be bigger. One example is SATA drives with 4KB
521 sectors that expose a 512-byte logical block size to the
522 operating system. For stacked block devices the
523 physical_block_size variable contains the maximum
524 physical_block_size of the component devices.
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527What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/read_ahead_kb
528Date: May 2004
529Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
530Description:
531 [RW] Maximum number of kilobytes to read-ahead for filesystems
532 on this block device.
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535What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/rotational
536Date: January 2009
537Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
538Description:
539 [RW] This file is used to stat if the device is of rotational
540 type or non-rotational type.
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543What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/rq_affinity
544Date: September 2008
545Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
546Description:
547 [RW] If this option is '1', the block layer will migrate request
548 completions to the cpu "group" that originally submitted the
549 request. For some workloads this provides a significant
550 reduction in CPU cycles due to caching effects.
551
552 For storage configurations that need to maximize distribution of
553 completion processing setting this option to '2' forces the
554 completion to run on the requesting cpu (bypassing the "group"
555 aggregation logic).
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558What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/scheduler
559Date: October 2004
560Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
561Description:
562 [RW] When read, this file will display the current and available
563 IO schedulers for this block device. The currently active IO
564 scheduler will be enclosed in [] brackets. Writing an IO
565 scheduler name to this file will switch control of this block
566 device to that new IO scheduler. Note that writing an IO
567 scheduler name to this file will attempt to load that IO
568 scheduler module, if it isn't already present in the system.
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571What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/stable_writes
572Date: September 2020
573Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
574Description:
575 [RW] This file will contain '1' if memory must not be modified
576 while it is being used in a write request to this device. When
577 this is the case and the kernel is performing writeback of a
578 page, the kernel will wait for writeback to complete before
579 allowing the page to be modified again, rather than allowing
580 immediate modification as is normally the case. This
581 restriction arises when the device accesses the memory multiple
582 times where the same data must be seen every time -- for
583 example, once to calculate a checksum and once to actually write
584 the data. If no such restriction exists, this file will contain
585 '0'. This file is writable for testing purposes.
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588What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/throttle_sample_time
589Date: March 2017
590Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
591Description:
592 [RW] This is the time window that blk-throttle samples data, in
593 millisecond. blk-throttle makes decision based on the
594 samplings. Lower time means cgroups have more smooth throughput,
595 but higher CPU overhead. This exists only when
596 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW is enabled.
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599What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/virt_boundary_mask
600Date: April 2021
601Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
602Description:
603 [RO] This file shows the I/O segment memory alignment mask for
604 the block device. I/O requests to this device will be split
605 between segments wherever either the memory address of the end
606 of the previous segment or the memory address of the beginning
607 of the current segment is not aligned to virt_boundary_mask + 1
608 bytes.
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611What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/wbt_lat_usec
612Date: November 2016
613Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
614Description:
615 [RW] If the device is registered for writeback throttling, then
616 this file shows the target minimum read latency. If this latency
617 is exceeded in a given window of time (see wb_window_usec), then
618 the writeback throttling will start scaling back writes. Writing
619 a value of '0' to this file disables the feature. Writing a
620 value of '-1' to this file resets the value to the default
621 setting.
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624What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/write_cache
625Date: April 2016
626Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
627Description:
628 [RW] When read, this file will display whether the device has
629 write back caching enabled or not. It will return "write back"
630 for the former case, and "write through" for the latter. Writing
631 to this file can change the kernels view of the device, but it
632 doesn't alter the device state. This means that it might not be
633 safe to toggle the setting from "write back" to "write through",
634 since that will also eliminate cache flushes issued by the
635 kernel.
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638What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/write_same_max_bytes
639Date: January 2012
640Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
641Description:
849ab826 642 [RO] Some devices support a write same operation in which a
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644 contiguous blocks on storage. This can be used to wipe areas on
645 disk or to initialize drives in a RAID configuration.
646 write_same_max_bytes indicates how many bytes can be written in
647 a single write same command. If write_same_max_bytes is 0, write
648 same is not supported by the device.
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651What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/write_zeroes_max_bytes
652Date: November 2016
653Contact: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
654Description:
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655 [RO] Devices that support write zeroes operation in which a
656 single request can be issued to zero out the range of contiguous
657 blocks on storage without having any payload in the request.
658 This can be used to optimize writing zeroes to the devices.
659 write_zeroes_max_bytes indicates how many bytes can be written
660 in a single write zeroes command. If write_zeroes_max_bytes is
661 0, write zeroes is not supported by the device.
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664What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/zone_append_max_bytes
665Date: May 2020
666Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
667Description:
668 [RO] This is the maximum number of bytes that can be written to
669 a sequential zone of a zoned block device using a zone append
670 write operation (REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND). This value is always 0 for
671 regular block devices.
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674What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/zone_write_granularity
675Date: January 2021
676Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
677Description:
678 [RO] This indicates the alignment constraint, in bytes, for
679 write operations in sequential zones of zoned block devices
680 (devices with a zoned attributed that reports "host-managed" or
681 "host-aware"). This value is always 0 for regular block devices.
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684What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/zoned
685Date: September 2016
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688 [RO] zoned indicates if the device is a zoned block device and
689 the zone model of the device if it is indeed zoned. The
690 possible values indicated by zoned are "none" for regular block
691 devices and "host-aware" or "host-managed" for zoned block
692 devices. The characteristics of host-aware and host-managed
693 zoned block devices are described in the ZBC (Zoned Block
694 Commands) and ZAC (Zoned Device ATA Command Set) standards.
695 These standards also define the "drive-managed" zone model.
696 However, since drive-managed zoned block devices do not support
697 zone commands, they will be treated as regular block devices and
698 zoned will report "none".
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701What: /sys/block/<disk>/hidden
702Date: March 2023
703Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
704Description:
705 [RO] the block device is hidden. it doesn’t produce events, and
706 can’t be opened from userspace or using blkdev_get*.
707 Used for the underlying components of multipath devices.
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710What: /sys/block/<disk>/stat
711Date: February 2008
712Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
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714 The /sys/block/<disk>/stat files displays the I/O
715 statistics of disk <disk>. They contain 11 fields:
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717 == ==============================================
718 1 reads completed successfully
719 2 reads merged
720 3 sectors read
721 4 time spent reading (ms)
722 5 writes completed
723 6 writes merged
724 7 sectors written
725 8 time spent writing (ms)
726 9 I/Os currently in progress
727 10 time spent doing I/Os (ms)
728 11 weighted time spent doing I/Os (ms)
729 12 discards completed
730 13 discards merged
731 14 sectors discarded
732 15 time spent discarding (ms)
733 16 flush requests completed
734 17 time spent flushing (ms)
735 == ==============================================
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07c9093c 737 For more details refer Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst