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authorJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>2006-03-23 20:00:26 +0100
committerJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>2006-03-23 20:00:26 +0100
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[PATCH] Block queue IO tracing support (blktrace) as of 2006-03-23
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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@@ -11,4 +11,16 @@ config LBD
your machine, or if you want to have a raid or loopback device
bigger than 2TB. Otherwise say N.
+config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
+ bool "Support for tracing block io actions"
+ select RELAY
+ select DEBUG_FS
+ help
+ Say Y here, if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
+ on a given queue. Tracing allows you to see any traffic happening
+ on a block device queue. For more information (and the user space
+ support tools needed), fetch the blktrace app from:
+
+ git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/blktrace.git
+
source block/Kconfig.iosched