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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst index 5d63b18bd6d1..60c45c916f7d 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ Field 10 -- # of milliseconds spent doing I/Os Since 5.0 this field counts jiffies when at least one request was started or completed. If request runs more than 2 jiffies then some - I/O time will not be accounted unless there are other requests. + I/O time might be not accounted in case of concurrent requests. Field 11 -- weighted # of milliseconds spent doing I/Os This field is incremented at each I/O start, I/O completion, I/O @@ -133,6 +133,9 @@ are summed (possibly overflowing the unsigned long variable they are summed to) and the result given to the user. There is no convenient user interface for accessing the per-CPU counters themselves. +Since 4.19 request times are measured with nanoseconds precision and +truncated to milliseconds before showing in this interface. + Disks vs Partitions ------------------- |