no slat log

no slat log

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

Hi,
when I try to create logs with fio I get bw, iops, lat, clat and slat 
logs but the slat log always has a size of 0 bytes. Is this a bug or is 
data for this log only generated with specific options for fio?

Regards,
   Dennis

Re: no slat log

[Erwan Velu]

On 07/08/2013 00:08, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> Hi,
> when I try to create logs with fio I get bw, iops, lat, clat and slat 
> logs but the slat log always has a size of 0 bytes. Is this a bug or 
> is data for this log only generated with specific options for fio?
>
Dennis,

I've been trying this on my 2.1.2 with the following job :

[read-sda-4k-para]
bs=4k
filename=/dev/sda
rw=read
write_lat_log=lat.log

On my side, the slat file is perfectly filled.

Can you provide a testing procedure & the version you use ?

Cheers,

Re: no slat log

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

On 07.08.2013 11:10, Erwan Velu wrote:
> On 07/08/2013 00:08, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>> Hi,
>> when I try to create logs with fio I get bw, iops, lat, clat and slat
>> logs but the slat log always has a size of 0 bytes. Is this a bug or
>> is data for this log only generated with specific options for fio?
>>
> Dennis,
>
> I've been trying this on my 2.1.2 with the following job :
>
> [read-sda-4k-para]
> bs=4k
> filename=/dev/sda
> rw=read
> write_lat_log=lat.log
>
> On my side, the slat file is perfectly filled.
>
> Can you provide a testing procedure & the version you use ?

I just tested the job above and these are the files produced:

[dennis@nexus fio]$ ls -l
total 11272
-rw-r--r--. 1 root   root   5767080  7. Aug 12:31 lat.log_clat.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root   root   5767087  7. Aug 12:31 lat.log_lat.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root   root         0  7. Aug 12:31 lat.log_slat.log
-rw-rw-r--. 1 dennis dennis      84  7. Aug 12:31 logtest.fio

There are not errors or warnings during the fio run so it's not clear 
why the file ends up being empty.

Regards,
   Dennis

Re: no slat log

[Erwan Velu]

On 07/08/2013 12:36, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>
> I just tested the job above and these are the files produced:
>
> [dennis@nexus fio]$ ls -l
> total 11272
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root   root   5767080  7. Aug 12:31 lat.log_clat.log
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root   root   5767087  7. Aug 12:31 lat.log_lat.log
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root   root         0  7. Aug 12:31 lat.log_slat.log
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 dennis dennis      84  7. Aug 12:31 logtest.fio
>
> There are not errors or warnings during the fio run so it's not clear 
> why the file ends up being empty.

Are you running 2.1.2 ?
If so, can you provides the complete output of fio while running ?

Cheers,

Re: no slat log

[Jens Axboe]

On 08/07/2013 04:36 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> On 07.08.2013 11:10, Erwan Velu wrote:
>> On 07/08/2013 00:08, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> when I try to create logs with fio I get bw, iops, lat, clat and slat
>>> logs but the slat log always has a size of 0 bytes. Is this a bug or
>>> is data for this log only generated with specific options for fio?
>>>
>> Dennis,
>>
>> I've been trying this on my 2.1.2 with the following job :
>>
>> [read-sda-4k-para]
>> bs=4k
>> filename=/dev/sda
>> rw=read
>> write_lat_log=lat.log
>>
>> On my side, the slat file is perfectly filled.
>>
>> Can you provide a testing procedure & the version you use ?
> 
> I just tested the job above and these are the files produced:
> 
> [dennis@nexus fio]$ ls -l
> total 11272
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root   root   5767080  7. Aug 12:31 lat.log_clat.log
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root   root   5767087  7. Aug 12:31 lat.log_lat.log
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root   root         0  7. Aug 12:31 lat.log_slat.log
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 dennis dennis      84  7. Aug 12:31 logtest.fio
> 
> There are not errors or warnings during the fio run so it's not clear
> why the file ends up being empty.

slat only exists for async IO engines. For a sync workload, submission
and completion retrieval are not separate events, so you cannot do split
submission + completion stats.

-- 
Jens Axboe