NAME
btrfsdist - Summarize btrfs operation latency. Uses Linux eBPF/bcc.
SYNOPSIS
btrfsdist [-h] [-T] [-N] [-d] [interval] [count]
DESCRIPTION
This tool summarizes time (latency) spent in common btrfs file operations: reads, writes, opens, and syncs, and presents it as a power-of-2 histogram. It uses an in-kernel eBPF map to store the histogram for efficiency.
Since this works by tracing the btrfs_file_operations interface functions, it will need updating to match any changes to these functions.
Since this uses BPF, only the root user can use this tool.
REQUIREMENTS
CONFIG_BPF and bcc.
OPTIONS
- -h
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Print usage message.
- -T
-
Don't include timestamps on interval output.
- -m
-
Output in milliseconds.
- -p PID
-
Trace this PID only.
EXAMPLES
- Trace btrfs operation time, and print a summary on Ctrl-C:
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# btrfsdist
- Trace PID 181 only:
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# btrfsdist -p 181
- Print 1 second summaries, 10 times:
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# btrfsdist 1 10
- 1 second summaries, printed in milliseconds
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# btrfsdist -m 1
FIELDS
- msecs
-
Range of milliseconds for this bucket.
- usecs
-
Range of microseconds for this bucket.
- count
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Number of operations in this time range.
- distribution
-
ASCII representation of the distribution (the count column).
OVERHEAD
This adds low-overhead instrumentation to btrfs writes and fsyncs, as well as all system reads and opens (due to the current implementation of the btrfs_file_operations interface). Particularly, all reads and writes from the file system cache will incur extra overhead while tracing. Such reads and writes can be very frequent (depending on the workload; eg, 1M/sec), at which point the overhead of this tool may become noticeable. Measure and quantify before use.
SOURCE
This is from bcc.
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https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
Also look in the bcc distribution for a companion _examples.txt file containing example usage, output, and commentary for this tool.
OS
Linux
STABILITY
Unstable - in development.
AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg
SEE ALSO
btrfsslower(8)