Re: [PATCH V6 0/3] block: add two statistic tables

[Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>]

On 4/21/21 12:50 PM, Jinpu Wang wrote:
[snip]
>>> Hi Jens,
>>> The problem with using blktrace at production may cause a performance
>>> drop ~30%. while with the block stats here, we only see ~3% when
>>> enabled.
>>
>> It's probably was asked before, but let's refresh as the discussion
>> erupted again.
>>
>> I get your problem with blktrace(8), IIRC it definitely can deteriorate
>> performance if run constantly, but did you try to write a bpf program
>> that does smarter accumulation in the kernel? Like making bpf to collect
>> a latency table (right as in your patches do) and flushing it to the
>> disk periodically?
> Hi Pavel,
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> We did test with ebpf with kprobe in the past (~kernel 4.4/4.14), we
> saw 10% performance drop, that's the reason we develop this
> stats patches.
> 
> But I just did another test with bpftrace on k 5.10.30, I do not see
> performance lost.
> It must be ebpf is improving very much since then.
> 
> So to summarize, we can use bpftrace to do the drop in latest kernel,
> there is no need to have it build into the kernel.

Perfect, and I'm sure it will be even more convenient for you, for
instance to gather other stats or do it somehow differently

> Thanks!
> 
> the bpftrace I used during testing:
> root@x4-left:~# cat /usr/sbin/biolatency.bt
> #!/usr/bin/env bpftrace
> /*
>  * biolatency.bt Block I/O latency as a histogram.
>  * For Linux, uses bpftrace, eBPF.
>  *
>  * This is a bpftrace version of the bcc tool of the same name.
>  *
>  * Copyright 2018 Netflix, Inc.
>  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License")
>  *
>  * 13-Sep-2018 Brendan Gregg Created this.
>  */
> 
> BEGIN
> {
> printf("Tracing block device I/O... Hit Ctrl-C to end.\n");
> }
> 
> kprobe:blk_account_io_start
> {
> @start[arg0] = nsecs;
> }
> 
> kprobe:blk_account_io_done
> /@start[arg0]/
> 
> {
> @usecs = hist((nsecs - @start[arg0]) / 1000);
> delete(@start[arg0]);
> }
> 
> 
> 
>>
>>
>>> We did a benchmark with rnbd.
>>>
>>> Fio config:
>>> [global]
>>> description=Emulation of Storage Server Access Pattern
>>> bssplit=512/20:1k/16:2k/9:4k/12:8k/19:16k/10:32k/8:64k/4
>>> fadvise_hint=0
>>> rw=randrw:2
>>> direct=1
>>> random_distribution=zipf:1.2
>>> #size=1G
>>> time_based=1
>>> runtime=10
>>> ramp_time=1
>>> ioengine=libaio
>>> iodepth=128
>>> iodepth_batch_submit=128
>>> iodepth_batch_complete=128
>>> numjobs=1
>>> #gtod_reduce=1
>>> group_reporting
>>>
>>> [job1]
>>> filename=/dev/rnbd0
>>>
>>> blktrace command:
>>> # blktrace -a read -a write -d /dev/rnbd0
>>>
>>> read IOPS drops 35%, similar for write IOPS.
>>>
>>> RNBD-No-blktrace  RNBD-With-blktrace
>>>
>>>  102056.894311               -35.5%
>>>
>>> The tests are done with v5.4.30.
>>> Test hardware is
>>> root@x4-left:~/haris/sds-perf# uname -a
>>> Linux x4-left 5.10.30-pserver
>>> #5.10.30-1+feature+linux+5.10.y+20210414.1233+e3dd267~deb10 SMP
>>> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>> root@x4-left:~/haris/sds-perf# lscpu
>>> Architecture:        x86_64
>>> CPU op-mode(s):      32-bit, 64-bit
>>> Byte Order:          Little Endian
>>> Address sizes:       46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
>>> CPU(s):              40
>>> On-line CPU(s) list: 0-39
>>> Thread(s) per core:  2
>>> Core(s) per socket:  10
>>> Socket(s):           2
>>> NUMA node(s):        2
>>> Vendor ID:           GenuineIntel
>>> CPU family:          6
>>> Model:               85
>>> Model name:          Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4114 CPU @ 2.20GHz
>>> Stepping:            4
>>> CPU MHz:             800.571
>>> CPU max MHz:         3000.0000
>>> CPU min MHz:         800.0000
>>> BogoMIPS:            4400.00
>>> Virtualization:      VT-x
>>> L1d cache:           32K
>>> L1i cache:           32K
>>> L2 cache:            1024K
>>> L3 cache:            14080K
>>> NUMA node0 CPU(s):   0-9,20-29
>>> NUMA node1 CPU(s):   10-19,30-39
>>> Flags:               fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr
>>> pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe
>>> syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts
>>> rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq
>>> dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm
>>> pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes
>>> xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb cat_l3
>>> cdp_l3 invpcid_single intel_ppin mba ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi
>>> flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep
>>> bmi2 erms invpcid rtm cqm mpx rdt_a avx512f avx512dq rdseed adx smap
>>> clflushopt clwb intel_pt avx512cd avx512bw avx512vl xsaveopt xsavec
>>> xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local
>>> dtherm ida arat pln pts pku ospke
>>> root@x4-left:~/haris/sds-perf# ibstat
>>> CA 'mlx5_0'
>>> CA type: MT4115
>>> Number of ports: 1
>>> Firmware version: 12.26.4012
>>> Hardware version: 0
>>> Node GUID: 0xec0d9a0300c5fffc
>>> System image GUID: 0xec0d9a0300c5fffc
>>> Port 1:
>>> State: Active
>>> Physical state: LinkUp
>>> Rate: 100
>>> Base lid: 3
>>> LMC: 0
>>> SM lid: 3
>>> Capability mask: 0x2651e84a
>>> Port GUID: 0xec0d9a0300c5fffc
>>> Link layer: InfiniBand
>>> CA 'mlx5_1'
>>> CA type: MT4115
>>> Number of ports: 1
>>> Firmware version: 12.26.4012
>>> Hardware version: 0
>>> Node GUID: 0xec0d9a0300c5fffd
>>> System image GUID: 0xec0d9a0300c5fffc
>>> Port 1:
>>> State: Active
>>> Physical state: LinkUp
>>> Rate: 100
>>> Base lid: 1
>>> LMC: 0
>>> SM lid: 1
>>> Capability mask: 0x2651e84a
>>> Port GUID: 0xec0d9a0300c5fffd
>>> Link layer: InfiniBand
>>>
>>> Thanks!

-- 
Pavel Begunkov