Current File : //usr/share/doc/bpftrace/examples/biolatency_example.txt
Demonstrations of biolatency, the Linux BPF/bpftrace version.
This traces block I/O, and shows latency as a power-of-2 histogram. For example:
# ./biolatency-kp.bt
Attaching 3 probes...
Tracing block device I/O... Hit Ctrl-C to end.
^C
@usecs:
[256, 512) 2 | |
[512, 1K) 10 |@ |
[1K, 2K) 426 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|
[2K, 4K) 230 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ |
[4K, 8K) 9 |@ |
[8K, 16K) 128 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ |
[16K, 32K) 68 |@@@@@@@@ |
[32K, 64K) 0 | |
[64K, 128K) 0 | |
[128K, 256K) 10 |@ |
While tracing, this shows that 426 block I/O had a latency of between 1K and 2K
usecs (1024 and 2048 microseconds), which is between 1 and 2 milliseconds.
There are also two modes visible, one between 1 and 2 milliseconds, and another
between 8 and 16 milliseconds: this sounds like cache hits and cache misses.
There were also 10 I/O with latency 128 to 256 ms: outliers. Other tools and
instrumentation, like biosnoop.bt, can shed more light on those outliers.
There is another version of this tool in bcc: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
The bcc version provides options to customize the output.
"biolatency.bt" is an updated version of "biolatency-kp.bt" and does basically
the same thing utilizing the tracepoints instead of kprobes.
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