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8.8 KiB
193 lines
8.8 KiB
Demonstrations of ext4dist, the Linux eBPF/bcc version. |
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ext4dist traces ext4 reads, writes, opens, and fsyncs, and summarizes their |
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latency as a power-of-2 histogram. For example: |
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# ./ext4dist |
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Tracing ext4 operation latency... Hit Ctrl-C to end. |
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^C |
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operation = 'read' |
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usecs : count distribution |
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0 -> 1 : 1210 |****************************************| |
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2 -> 3 : 126 |**** | |
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4 -> 7 : 376 |************ | |
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8 -> 15 : 86 |** | |
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16 -> 31 : 9 | | |
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32 -> 63 : 47 |* | |
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64 -> 127 : 6 | | |
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128 -> 255 : 24 | | |
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256 -> 511 : 137 |**** | |
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512 -> 1023 : 66 |** | |
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1024 -> 2047 : 13 | | |
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2048 -> 4095 : 7 | | |
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4096 -> 8191 : 13 | | |
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8192 -> 16383 : 3 | | |
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operation = 'write' |
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usecs : count distribution |
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0 -> 1 : 0 | | |
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2 -> 3 : 0 | | |
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4 -> 7 : 0 | | |
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8 -> 15 : 75 |****************************************| |
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16 -> 31 : 5 |** | |
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operation = 'open' |
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usecs : count distribution |
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0 -> 1 : 1278 |****************************************| |
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2 -> 3 : 40 |* | |
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4 -> 7 : 4 | | |
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8 -> 15 : 1 | | |
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16 -> 31 : 1 | | |
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This output shows a bi-modal distribution for read latency, with a faster |
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mode of less than 7 microseconds, and a slower mode of between 256 and 1023 |
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microseconds. The count column shows how many events fell into that latency |
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range. It's likely that the faster mode was a hit from the in-memory file |
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system cache, and the slower mode is a read from a storage device (disk). |
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This "latency" is measured from when the operation was issued from the VFS |
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interface to the file system, to when it completed. This spans everything: |
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block device I/O (disk I/O), file system CPU cycles, file system locks, run |
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queue latency, etc. This is a better measure of the latency suffered by |
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applications reading from the file system than measuring this down at the |
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block device interface. |
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Note that this only traces the common file system operations previously |
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listed: other file system operations (eg, inode operations including |
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getattr()) are not traced. |
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An optional interval and a count can be provided, as well as -m to show the |
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distributions in milliseconds. For example: |
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# ./ext4dist -m 1 5 |
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Tracing ext4 operation latency... Hit Ctrl-C to end. |
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10:19:00: |
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operation = 'read' |
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msecs : count distribution |
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0 -> 1 : 576 |****************************************| |
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2 -> 3 : 5 | | |
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4 -> 7 : 6 | | |
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8 -> 15 : 13 | | |
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16 -> 31 : 17 |* | |
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32 -> 63 : 5 | | |
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64 -> 127 : 1 | | |
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operation = 'write' |
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msecs : count distribution |
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0 -> 1 : 20 |****************************************| |
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operation = 'open' |
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msecs : count distribution |
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0 -> 1 : 346 |****************************************| |
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10:19:01: |
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operation = 'read' |
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msecs : count distribution |
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0 -> 1 : 584 |****************************************| |
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2 -> 3 : 10 | | |
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4 -> 7 : 11 | | |
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8 -> 15 : 16 |* | |
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16 -> 31 : 6 | | |
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32 -> 63 : 4 | | |
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64 -> 127 : 2 | | |
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128 -> 255 : 1 | | |
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operation = 'write' |
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msecs : count distribution |
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0 -> 1 : 20 |****************************************| |
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operation = 'open' |
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msecs : count distribution |
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0 -> 1 : 336 |****************************************| |
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10:19:02: |
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operation = 'read' |
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msecs : count distribution |
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0 -> 1 : 678 |****************************************| |
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2 -> 3 : 7 | | |
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4 -> 7 : 9 | | |
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8 -> 15 : 25 |* | |
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16 -> 31 : 10 | | |
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32 -> 63 : 3 | | |
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operation = 'write' |
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msecs : count distribution |
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0 -> 1 : 19 |****************************************| |
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2 -> 3 : 1 |** | |
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operation = 'open' |
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msecs : count distribution |
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0 -> 1 : 390 |****************************************| |
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10:19:03: |
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operation = 'read' |
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msecs : count distribution |
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0 -> 1 : 567 |****************************************| |
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2 -> 3 : 7 | | |
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4 -> 7 : 9 | | |
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8 -> 15 : 20 |* | |
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16 -> 31 : 15 |* | |
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32 -> 63 : 5 | | |
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64 -> 127 : 2 | | |
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operation = 'write' |
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msecs : count distribution |
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0 -> 1 : 20 |****************************************| |
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operation = 'open' |
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msecs : count distribution |
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0 -> 1 : 417 |****************************************| |
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10:19:04: |
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operation = 'read' |
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msecs : count distribution |
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0 -> 1 : 762 |****************************************| |
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2 -> 3 : 9 | | |
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4 -> 7 : 9 | | |
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8 -> 15 : 11 | | |
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16 -> 31 : 20 |* | |
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32 -> 63 : 4 | | |
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64 -> 127 : 1 | | |
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operation = 'write' |
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msecs : count distribution |
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0 -> 1 : 20 |****************************************| |
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operation = 'open' |
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msecs : count distribution |
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0 -> 1 : 427 |****************************************| |
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This shows a mixed read/write workload. |
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USAGE message: |
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# ./ext4dist -h |
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usage: ext4dist [-h] [-T] [-m] [-p PID] [interval] [count] |
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Summarize ext4 operation latency |
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positional arguments: |
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interval output interval, in seconds |
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count number of outputs |
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optional arguments: |
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-h, --help show this help message and exit |
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-T, --notimestamp don't include timestamp on interval output |
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-m, --milliseconds output in milliseconds |
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-p PID, --pid PID trace this PID only |
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examples: |
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./ext4dist # show operation latency as a histogram |
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./ext4dist -p 181 # trace PID 181 only |
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./ext4dist 1 10 # print 1 second summaries, 10 times |
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./ext4dist -m 5 # 5s summaries, milliseconds
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