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- From: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no (Havard Eidnes)
- Subject: iostat -- missing kernel pieces
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.221949.6680@ugle.unit.no>
- Originator: he@spurv.runit.sintef.no
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Computing Center at the University of Trondheim, Norway
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 22:19:49 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- Hi,
-
- this evening's project of 386bsd 0.1 hacking was planned to be a port of
- iostat from NET2. I've modified the names.c file in usr.bin/vmstat to read
- in the device structs from _isa_devtab_bio, and on "my" system it finds fd0
- and as0 just fine. I noted one odd thing, and that was that the isa_device
- struct lacks a id_dk field, which on the other systems names.c support
- apparently is to be used as a global index of some sort. I worked around
- this by using a local index, and counting it up as I went through the bdev
- (?) device table. The rest of iostat compiled more or less effortlessly.
-
- However: iostat does not show any values other than 0 for the "sps", "tps"
- or "msps" fields for all drives. These values are supposed to be fetched
- from various arrays in the kernel: dk_xfer, dk_wds, dk_seek etc. After
- grepping through the kernel sources, it appears that the only place these
- variables are ever mentioned is in the sys/dkstat.h include file -- noone ever
- bothers to update these arrays. I did in particular investigate the device
- drivers for wd, as and fd, and came up emptyhanded.
-
- Without a global "disk index" in the block (?) device table and without device
- drivers updating these statistics, it appears that it is going to be difficult
- to create an iostat which shows any useful info.
-
- Unfortunately, hacking in the global disk index and modifying the device
- drivers are currently above my skill level, and I don't have the available
- time (sorry -- vacation soon too...), so I'm going to shelve this project
- for now. If someone decides to put in the disk index and the device drivers
- are modified accordingly, I'll happily pick it up again. ;-)
-
- - Havard
-