Re: [RFC 0/3] blkcg: add blk-iotrack

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Weiping Zhang <zwp10758@xxxxxxxxx> 于2020年3月26日周四 上午12:45写道:
>
> Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> 于2020年3月25日周三 下午10:12写道:
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 08:49:24PM +0800, Weiping Zhang wrote:
> > > For this patchset, iotrack can work well, I'm using it to monitor
> > > block cgroup for
> > > selecting a proper io isolation policy.
> >
> > Yeah, I get that but monitoring needs tend to diverge quite a bit
> > depending on the use cases making detailed monitoring often need fair
> > bit of flexibility, so I'm a bit skeptical about adding a fixed
> > controller for that. I think a better approach may be implementing
> > features which can make dynamic monitoring whether that's through bpf,
> > drgn or plain tracepoints easier and more efficient.
> >
> I agree with you, there are lots of io metrics needed in the real
> production system.
> The more flexible way is export all bio structure members of bio’s whole life to
> the userspace without re-compiling kernel, like what bpf did.
>
> Now the main block cgroup isolation policy:
>  blk-iocost and bfq are weght based, blk-iolatency is latency based.
> The blk-iotrack can track the real percentage for IOs,kB,on disk time(d2c),
> and total time, it’s a good indicator to the real weight. For blk-iolatency, the
> blk-iotrack has 8 lantency thresholds to show latency distribution, so if we
> change these thresholds around to blk-iolateny.target.latency, we can tune
> the target latency to a more proper value.
>
> blk-iotrack extends the basic io.stat. It just export the important
> basic io statistics
> for cgroup,like what /prof/diskstats for block device. And it’s easy
> programming,
> iotrack just working like iostat, but focus on cgroup.
>
> blk-iotrack is friendly with these block cgroup isolation policies, a
> indicator for
> cgroup weight and lantency.
>

Hi Tejun,

I do a testing at cgroup v2 and monitoring them by iotrack,
then I compare the fio's output and iotrack's, they can match well.

cgroup weight test:
/sys/fs/cgroup/test1
/sys/fs/cgroup/test2
test1.weight : test2.weight = 8 : 1

Now I just run randread-4K fio test by these three policy:
iocost, bfq, and nvme-wrr
For blk-iocost I run "iocost_coef_gen.py" and set result to the "io.cost.model".
259:0 ctrl=user model=linear rbps=3286476297 rseqiops=547837
rrandiops=793881 wbps=2001272356 wseqiops=482243 wrandiops=483037

But iocost_test1 cannot get 8/(8+1) iops,  and the total disk iops
is 737559 < 79388, even I change rrandiops=637000.

test case     bw         iops       rd_avg_lat  rd_p99_lat
==========================================================
iocost_test1  1550478    387619     659.76      1662.00
iocost_test2  1399761    349940     730.83      1712.00
wrr_test1     2618185    654546     390.59      1187.00
wrr_test2     362613     90653      2822.62     4358.00
bfq_test1     714127     178531     1432.43     489.00
bfq_test2     178821     44705      5721.76     552.00


The detail test report can be found at:
https://github.com/dublio/iotrack/wiki/cgroup-io-weight-test


> Thanks




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