Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v5] f2fs: introduce periodic iostat io latency traces

Chao Yu
2021-08-20T23:16:24Z

On 2021/8/21 6:29, Daeho Jeong wrote:
> From: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>
>
> Whenever we notice some sluggish issues on our machines, we are always
> curious about how well all types of I/O in the f2fs filesystem are
> handled. But, it's hard to get this kind of real data. First of all,
> we need to reproduce the issue while turning on the profiling tool like
> blktrace, but the issue doesn't happen again easily. Second, with the
> intervention of any tools, the overall timing of the issue will be
> slightly changed and it sometimes makes us hard to figure it out.
>
> So, I added the feature printing out IO latency statistics tracepoint
> events, which are minimal things to understand filesystem's I/O related
> behaviors, into F2FS_IOSTAT kernel config. With "iostat_enable" sysfs
> node on, we can get this statistics info in a periodic way and it
> would cause the least overhead.
>
> [samples]
> f2fs_ckpt-254:1-507 [003] .... 2842.439683: f2fs_iostat_latency:
> dev = (254,11), iotype [peak lat.(ms)/avg lat.(ms)/count],
> rd_data [136/1/801], rd_node [136/1/1704], rd_meta [4/2/4],
> wr_sync_data [164/16/3331], wr_sync_node [152/3/648],
> wr_sync_meta [160/2/4243], wr_async_data [24/13/15],
> wr_async_node [0/0/0], wr_async_meta [0/0/0]
>
> f2fs_ckpt-254:1-507 [002] .... 2845.450514: f2fs_iostat_latency:
> dev = (254,11), iotype [peak lat.(ms)/avg lat.(ms)/count],
> rd_data [60/3/456], rd_node [60/3/1258], rd_meta [0/0/1],
> wr_sync_data [120/12/2285], wr_sync_node [88/5/428],
> wr_sync_meta [52/6/2990], wr_async_data [4/1/3],
> wr_async_node [0/0/0], wr_async_meta [0/0/0]
>
> Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>

Thanks,