#!/usr/bin/env bpftrace
/*
* writeback Trace file system writeback events with details.
* For Linux, uses bpftrace and eBPF.
*
* This traces when file system dirtied pages are flushed to disk by kernel
* writeback, and prints details including when the event occurred, and the
* duration of the event. This can be useful for correlating these times with
* other performance problems, and if there is a match, it would be a clue
* that the problem may be caused by writeback. How quickly the kernel does
* writeback can be tuned: see the kernel docs, eg,
* vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs.
*
* USAGE: writeback.bt
*
* Copyright 2018 Netflix, Inc.
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License")
*
* 14-Sep-2018 Brendan Gregg Created this.
*/
BEGIN
{
printf("Tracing writeback... Hit Ctrl-C to end.\n");
printf("%-9s %-8s %-8s %-16s %s\n", "TIME", "DEVICE", "PAGES",
"REASON", "ms");
// see /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/writeback/writeback_start/format
@reason[0] = "background";
@reason[1] = "vmscan";
@reason[2] = "sync";
@reason[3] = "periodic";
@reason[4] = "laptop_timer";
@reason[5] = "free_more_memory";
@reason[6] = "fs_free_space";
@reason[7] = "forker_thread";
}
tracepoint:writeback:writeback_start
{
@start[args.sb_dev] = nsecs;
}
tracepoint:writeback:writeback_written
{
$sb_dev = args.sb_dev;
$s = @start[$sb_dev];
delete(@start[$sb_dev]);
$lat = $s ? (nsecs - $s) / 1000 : 0;
time("%H:%M:%S ");
printf("%-8s %-8d %-16s %d.%03d\n", args.name,
args.nr_pages & 0xffff, // TODO: explain these bitmasks
@reason[args.reason & 0xffffffff],
$lat / 1000, $lat % 1000);
}
END
{
clear(@reason);
clear(@start);
}
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