xfsdist - Summarize XFS operation latency. Uses Linux eBPF/bcc.

       Brendan Gregg

       This tool summarizes time (latency) spent in common XFS 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 xfs_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.

       Trace XFS operation time, and print a summary on Ctrl-C:
              # xfsdist

       Trace PID 181 only:
              # xfsdist-p181

       Print 1 second summaries, 10 times:
              # xfsdist110

       1 second summaries, printed in milliseconds
              # xfsdist-m1

       msecs  Range of milliseconds for this bucket.

       usecs  Range of microseconds for this bucket.

       count  Number of operations in this time range.

       distribution
              ASCII representation of the distribution (the count column).

       xfsdist - Summarize XFS operation latency. Uses Linux eBPF/bcc.

       -h     Print usage message.

       -T     Don't include timestamps on interval output.

       -m     Output in milliseconds.

       -p PID Trace this PID only.

       Linux

       This  adds low-overhead instrumentation to these XFS operations, including reads and writes from the file
       system cache. 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.

       CONFIG_BPF and bcc.

xfssnoop(8)

USER COMMANDS                                      2016-02-12                                         xfsdist(8)

       This is from bcc.

              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.

       Unstable - in development.

xfsdist[-h][-T][-m][-pPID][interval][count]