NAME
virtiostat - Trace VIRTIO devices input/output statistics. Uses Linux eBPF/bcc.
SYNOPSIS
virtiostat [-h] [-T] [-D] [-d DRIVER] [-n DEVNAME] [INTERVAL] [COUNT]
DESCRIPTION
This tool traces VIRTIO devices input/output statistics. It works in lower layer of VIRTIO base driver, so it could trace all the devices of VIRTIO family. For example, we can't get IO statistics of 9p-fs in a guest virtual machine by iostat command, but we can analyze IO statistics by virtiostat. The outputing result shows In/Out SGs(scatter list operation) to represent positive correlation IOPS, and In/Out BW to represent throughput.
Since this uses BPF, only the root user can use this tool.
REQUIREMENTS
CONFIG_BPF and bcc.
OPTIONS
- -h
-
Print usage message.
- -T
-
Include a time column on output (HH:MM:SS).
- -D
-
Show debug infomation of bpf text.
- -d DRIVER
-
Filter for driver name.
- -n DEVNAME
-
Filter for device name.
- INTERVAL
-
Print output every interval seconds.
- COUNT
-
Total count of trace in seconds.
EXAMPLES
- Trace virtio device statistics and print 1 second summaries, 10 times:
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# virtiostat 1 10
- Trace virtio block deivces only:
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# virtiostat -d virtio_blk
OVERHEAD
This traces the kernel virtqueue_add_sgs, virtqueue_add_outbuf, virtqueue_add_inbuf, virtqueue_add_inbuf_ctx functions. The rate of this depends on all the VIRTIO devices IOPS.
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
zhenwei pi