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Date:      Wed, 28 Oct 2015 20:29:12 +0000
From:      "Pokala, Ravi" <rpokala@panasas.com>
To:        Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
Cc:        "freebsd-geom@freebsd.org" <freebsd-geom@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org" <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "ken@freebsd.org" <ken@freebsd.org>, "imp@freebsd.org" <imp@freebsd.org>, "scottl@freebsd.org" <scottl@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Low-level trace-buffers in CAM
Message-ID:  <76951B36-ADA9-45AC-BC20-2A8340DEC6B8@panasas.com>
In-Reply-To: <20151028140322.GK6469@zxy.spb.ru>
References:  <A760883F-317D-46C9-AD7C-B8F5D96A49DA@panasas.com> <20151028140322.GK6469@zxy.spb.ru>

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From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
Date: 2015-10-28, Wednesday at 07:03
To: Ravi Pokala <rpokala@panasas.com>
Cc: "freebsd-geom@freebsd.org" <freebsd-geom@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org" <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "ken@freebsd.org" <ken@freebsd.org>, "imp@freebsd.org" <imp@freebsd.org>, "scottl@freebsd.org" <scottl@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Low-level trace-buffers in CAM

>On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 02:22:33AM +0000, Pokala, Ravi wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> This is an updated re-send of a message I originally sent about a year ago, during MeetBSD 2014. A few people expressed interest in person, but no one ever followed up on the lists. I'm bringing this up again, in the hopes that I can get some feedback before / during next week's Dev/Vendor Summit. I'm CCing some folks who expressed interest at that time, and some folks that I was told would be interested.
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>What about also export average queue length? May be request wait time in queue.

Those are certainly good to have, but are at a higher layer than what I'm trying to capture. I'm really interested in what's going into and out of the hardware - the values of the CDB fields just before they get sent to the hardware, and the elapsed time and return-CDB fields when the SIM driver's interrupt handler fires at command completion. Admittedly, most people don't need that level of detail, but I work for a storage company, so ... ;-)

-Ravi


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