Retrying the iops log output format (missing 3000 and 13000 is drifted): 1000, 299636, 0, 0 2000, 354388, 0, 0 4000, 337972, 0, 0 5000, 323825, 0, 0 6000, 337457, 0, 0 7000, 327775, 0, 0 8000, 361275, 0, 0 9000, 348060, 0, 0 10000, 340273, 0, 0 11000, 349127, 0, 0 12000, 329088, 0, 0 12999, 349604, 0, 0 14000, 322321, 0, 0 15000, 319467, 0, 0 Regards, Jeff -----Original Message----- From: fio-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fio-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Furlong Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 2:23 PM To: Karl Cronburg <kcronbur@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Eaton <m.eaton82@xxxxxxxxx>; Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>; fio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: what is the sample logger doing when the buffer fills up? I still see some samples as dropped. # fio -version fio-2.12-23-gc165 1000, 299636, 0, 0 2000, 354388, 0, 0 --> missing 3000 below 4000, 337972, 0, 0 5000, 323825, 0, 0 6000, 337457, 0, 0 7000, 327775, 0, 0 8000, 361275, 0, 0 9000, 348060, 0, 0 10000, 340273, 0, 0 11000, 349127, 0, 0 12000, 329088, 0, 0 12999, 349604, 0, 0 --> mild clock drift 14000, 322321, 0, 0 15000, 319467, 0, 0 Regards, Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Karl Cronburg [mailto:kcronbur@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 1:29 PM To: Jeff Furlong <jeff.furlong@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Eaton <m.eaton82@xxxxxxxxx>; Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>; fio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: what is the sample logger doing when the buffer fills up? PR 211 is one possible solution: https://github.com/axboe/fio/pull/211 The gaps in the IOPs logs are caused by drift in the value of avg_last forward in time, e.g. if there's a drift of 1 millisecond every time we output a sample and log_avg_msec=100, then every 100th IOP average gets a gap. On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 8:09 PM, Jeff Furlong <jeff.furlong@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I haven't been able to debug the issue all the way, but notice that the reported time logs around the missing entries are not perfect. After time 5001us, the 6000us entry is missing. After time 21001us, the 22000us entry is missing. > > On my workloads, I see time 11999us, but time 11000 is missing. So the time logs go: 10000, 11999, 13000, 14000, etc. > > I suspect the issue to be in or near stat.c: > > static void add_log_sample(struct thread_data *td, struct io_log *iolog, > unsigned long val, enum fio_ddir ddir, > unsigned int bs, uint64_t offset) { > unsigned long elapsed, this_window; > > if (!ddir_rw(ddir)) > return; > > elapsed = mtime_since_now(&td->epoch); > > /* > * If no time averaging, just add the log sample. > */ > if (!iolog->avg_msec) { > __add_log_sample(iolog, val, ddir, bs, elapsed, offset); > return; > } > > /* > * Add the sample. If the time period has passed, then > * add that entry to the log and clear. > */ > add_stat_sample(&iolog->avg_window[ddir], val); > > /* > * If period hasn't passed, adding the above sample is all we > * need to do. > */ > this_window = elapsed - iolog->avg_last; > if (this_window < iolog->avg_msec) > return; > > _add_stat_to_log(iolog, elapsed, td->o.log_max != 0); > > iolog->avg_last = elapsed; > } > > Regards, > Jeff > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Eaton [mailto:m.eaton82@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 11:24 AM > To: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jeff Furlong <jeff.furlong@xxxxxxxx>; Karl Cronburg > <kcronbur@xxxxxxxxxx>; fio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: what is the sample logger doing when the buffer fills up? > > I am also seeing this bug but with numjobs = 1. > > fio --numjobs=1 --iodepth=32 --ramp_time=1800 --runtime=1810 > --time_based --rw=randwrite --bs=4k --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 > --refill_buffers --norandommap --randrepeat=0 --log_avg_msec=1000 > --write_iops_log=write --name=write-iops --filename=/dev/sdb > > fio-2.12-12-g45213 > > 3000, 23033, 1, 0 > 4000, 23035, 1, 0 > 5001, 25463, 1, 0 <<< > 7000, 24649, 1, 0 <<< > 8000, 27103, 1, 0 > 9000, 23004, 1, 0 > 10000, 23064, 1, 0 > 11000, 26199, 1, 0 > 12000, 23107, 1, 0 > 13000, 28734, 1, 0 > 14000, 23853, 1, 0 > 15000, 28739, 1, 0 > 16000, 27061, 1, 0 > 17000, 25504, 1, 0 > 18000, 29550, 1, 0 > 19000, 23842, 1, 0 > 20000, 23056, 1, 0 > 21001, 23010, 1, 0 <<< > 23000, 24236, 1, 0 <<< > 24000, 23867, 1, 0 > 25000, 25459, 1, 0 > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 07/07/2016 03:47 PM, Jeff Furlong wrote: >>> >>> There are more. 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