Re: [PATCH V3] block/throttle: Add IO throttled information inblkio.throttle

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Vivek.

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:00:11AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > That way we can stick to the usual stats facility.
> 
> So how does this help? Because it is a monotonically increasing value
> we can use per cpu stats without extra locking? Or somthing else?

It's generally much simpler to expose dumb increasing counters.  You
don't have to worry about mismatching decrements (for whatever reason,
percpu or segmented counters), so unless there's a pretty good reason
to deviate, why deviate?

Thanks.

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tejun
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