From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 31 16:30:14 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 417451065672 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:30:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 156B98FC18 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:30:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p0VGUDv1039197 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:30:13 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p0VGUDTG039191; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:30:13 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:30:13 GMT Message-Id: <201101311630.p0VGUDTG039191@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org From: dfilter@FreeBSD.ORG (dfilter service) Cc: Subject: Re: docs/130548: commit references a PR X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: dfilter service List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:30:14 -0000 The following reply was made to PR docs/130548; it has been noted by GNATS. From: dfilter@FreeBSD.ORG (dfilter service) To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: docs/130548: commit references a PR Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:20:37 +0000 (UTC) Author: ae Date: Mon Jan 31 16:20:28 2011 New Revision: 218133 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/218133 Log: MFC r188728 by pjd: Document kern.geom.journal.* sysctls. PR: docs/130548 Submitted by: Hywel Mallett MFC r188729 by pjd: Correct the year. Reported by: Florian Smeets Modified: stable/7/sbin/geom/class/journal/gjournal.8 Directory Properties: stable/7/sbin/geom/class/journal/ (props changed) Modified: stable/7/sbin/geom/class/journal/gjournal.8 ============================================================================== --- stable/7/sbin/geom/class/journal/gjournal.8 Mon Jan 31 15:52:00 2011 (r218132) +++ stable/7/sbin/geom/class/journal/gjournal.8 Mon Jan 31 16:20:28 2011 (r218133) @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Pawel Jakub Dawidek +.\" Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Pawel Jakub Dawidek .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd April 13, 2008 +.Dd February 17, 2009 .Dt GJOURNAL 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -223,6 +223,106 @@ gjournal label da0s1d da0s1e && \e mount -o async /dev/da0s1d.journal /mnt || \e mount /dev/da0s1d /mnt .Ed +.Sh SYSCTLS +Gjournal adds the sysctl level kern.geom.journal. +The string and integer information available is detailed below. +The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate privilege may +change the value. +.Bl -column "accept_immediatelyXXXXXX" integerXXX -offset indent +.It Sy "sysctl name Type Changeable" +.It "debug integer yes" +.It "switch_time integer yes" +.It "force_switch integer yes" +.It "parallel_flushes integer yes" +.It "accept_immediately integer yes" +.It "parallel_copies integer yes" +.It "record_entries integer yes" +.It "optimize integer yes" +.El +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width 6n +.It Li debug +Setting a non-zero value enables debugging at various levels. +Debug level 1 will record actions at a journal level, relating to journal +switches, metadata updates etc. +Debug level 2 will record actions at a higher level, relating to the numbers of +entries in journals, access requests etc. +Debug level 3 will record verbose detail, including insertion of I/Os to the +journal. +.It Li switch_time +The maximum number of seconds a journal is allowed to remain open before +switching to a new journal. +.It Li force_switch +Force a journal switch when the journal uses more than N% of the free journal space. +.It Li parallel_flushes +The number of flush I/O requests to be sent in parallel when flushing the journal to the data provider. +.It Li accept_immediately +The maximum number of I/O requests accepted at the same time. +.It Li parallel_copies +The number of copy I/O requests to send in parallel. +.It Li record_entries +The maximum number of record entries to allow in a single journal. +.It Li optimize +Controls whether entries in a journal will be optimized, by combining overlapping I/Os into a single I/O, and reordering the entries in a journal. This can be disabled by setting the sysctl to 0. +.El +.Ss cache +The string and integer information available for the cache level +is detailed below. +The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate +privilege may change the value. +.Bl -column "alloc_failuresXXXXXX" integerXXX -offset indent +.It Sy "sysctl name Type Changeable" +.It "used integer no" +.It "limit integer yes" +.It "divisor integer no" +.It "switch integer yes" +.It "misses integer yes" +.It "alloc_failures integer yes" +.El +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width 6n +.It Li used +The number of bytes currently allocated to the cache. +.It Li limit +The maximum number of bytes to be allocated to the cache. +.It Li divisor +Sets the cache size to be used as a proportion of kmem_size. A value of 2 (the default) will cause the cache size to be set to 1/2 of the kmem_size. +.It Li switch +Force a journal switch when this percentage of cache has been used. +.It Li misses +The number of cache misses, when data has been read, but was not found in the cache. +.It Li alloc_failures +The number of times memory failed to be allocated to the cache because the cache limit was hit. +.El +.Ss stats +The string and integer information available for the statistics level +is detailed below. +The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate +privilege may change the value. +.Bl -column "skipped_bytesXXXXXX" integerXXX -offset indent +.It Sy "sysctl name Type Changeable" +.It "skipped_bytes integer yes" +.It "combined_ios integer yes" +.It "switches integer yes" +.It "wait_for_copy integer yes" +.It "journal_full integer yes" +.It "low_mem integer yes" +.El +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width 6n +.It Li skipped_bytes +The number of bytes skipped. +.It Li combined_ios +The number of I/Os which were combined by journal optimization. +.It Li switches +The number of journal switches. +.It Li wait_for_copy +The number of times the journal switch process had to wait for the previous journal copy to complete. +.It Li journal_full +The number of times the journal was almost full, forcing a journal switch. +.It Li low_mem +The number of times the low_mem hook was called. +.El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr geom 4 , .Xr geom 8 , @@ -237,7 +337,3 @@ utility appeared in .Fx 7.0 . .Sh AUTHORS .An Pawel Jakub Dawidek Aq pjd@FreeBSD.org -.Sh BUGS -Documentation for sysctls -.Va kern.geom.journal.* -is missing. _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"