Module Name: src
Committed By: wiz
Date: Sun Mar 5 23:15:35 UTC 2017
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man9: disk.9
Log Message:
New sentence, new line.
Use more macros.
Bump date for previous.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.44 -r1.45 src/share/man/man9/disk.9
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Index: src/share/man/man9/disk.9
diff -u src/share/man/man9/disk.9:1.44 src/share/man/man9/disk.9:1.45
--- src/share/man/man9/disk.9:1.44 Sun Mar 5 23:07:12 2017
+++ src/share/man/man9/disk.9 Sun Mar 5 23:15:35 2017
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: disk.9,v 1.44 2017/03/05 23:07:12 mlelstv Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: disk.9,v 1.45 2017/03/05 23:15:35 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1995, 1996 Jason R. Thorpe.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd December 29, 2014
+.Dd March 5, 2017
.Dt DISK 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -173,9 +173,11 @@ required.
.It Fn disk_wait
Disk timings are measured by counting the number of queued
requests (wait counter) and requests issued to the hardware (busy counter)
-and keeping timestamp when the counters change. The time interval between
+and keeping timestamp when the counters change.
+The time interval between
two changes of a counter is accumulated into a total and also multiplied
-by the counter value and the accumulated into a sum. Both values can be
+by the counter value and the accumulated into a sum.
+Both values can be
used to determine how much time is spent in the driver queue or in-flight
to the hardware as well as the average number of requests in either state.
.Fn disk_wait
@@ -183,7 +185,8 @@ increment the disk's wait counter and ha
.It Fn disk_busy
Decrements the disk's wait counter and increments the disk's
.Dq busy counter ,
-and handles either accumulation. If the wait counter is still zero, it
+and handles either accumulation.
+If the wait counter is still zero, it
is assumed that the driver hasn't been updated to call
.Fn disk_wait ,
then only the values from the busy counter are available.
@@ -568,4 +571,4 @@ The
.Nx
generic disk framework was architected and implemented by
.An Jason R. Thorpe
-.Aq thor...@netbsd.org .
+.Aq Mt thor...@netbsd.org .
