* Keiichi KII <k-keiichi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I would propose pagecache monitoring tools using perf tools. > The purpose of the tools is to clarify pagecache behavior in a system. > > We can now know system-wide pagecache usage by "/proc/meminfo". > But we don't have any way to get higher resolution information like > per file or per process usage than system-wide one. > If pagecache miss hit ratio rises due to unnecessary adding/removing > pagecaches, maybe it leads to extra I/O and affects system performance. > But it's difficult to find out what is going on in the system. > > So, the tools I propose provide 2 functions: > > 1. pagecache snapshooting(perf script pagecache-snapshoot) > > This function clarifies pagecache usage per each file in the system. > This function is based mainly on "pagecache object collections" that is > developed by Wu Fengguang (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/9/156). > The following is sample output of this function. > > pagecache snapshooting (time: 14131, path: /home) > file name cache(B) file(B) ratio +/-(B) age > -------------------------------------- -------- -------- ------ ------- ------ > /home/foo/git/linux-2.6-tip/.git/objec 71.0M 436.6M 16% 0 9012 > /home/foo/git/linux-2.6-tip/.git/objec 49.6M 57.7M 86% 0 9012 > /home/foo/.thunderbird/xso5zn7g.defaul 19.8M 19.8M 100% 0 7223 > /home/foo/.thunderbird/xso5zn7g.defaul 5.7M 5.7M 100% 0 6621 > /home/foo/git/linux-2.6-tip/.git/index 3.5M 3.5M 100% 0 4306 > /home/foo/.thunderbird/xso5zn7g.defaul 2.2M 2.2M 100% 0 7524 > /home/foo/.thunderbird/xso5zn7g.defaul 2.2M 2.2M 100% 0 7526 > /home/foo/.thunderbird/xso5zn7g.defaul 1.7M 1.7M 100% 0 6921 > ... > > 2. continuous pagecache monitoring(perf script pagecachetop) > > This function clarifies pagecache behavior like pagecache hit ratio and > added/removed pagecache amount on the basis of file/process. > This functions is based on pagecache tracepoints I propose. > While the pagecache snapshooting can take a pagecache snapshoot at a point, > the continuous pagecache monitoring can measure dynamic change between > 2 snapshoots. > The following is sample output of this function. > > pagecache behavior per file (time:15826, interval:10) > > find hit cache add remove proc > file count ratio pages(B) pages(B) pages(B) count > -------------------- -------- ---------- -------- -------- -------- ----- > libc-2.13.so 620 100.00% 1.2M 0 0 7 > bash 283 100.00% 888.0K 0 0 6 > ld-2.13.so 136 100.00% 148.0K 0 0 6 > gawk 130 100.00% 376.0K 0 0 2 > ld.so.cache 60 100.00% 116.0K 0 0 4 > ... > > pagecache behavior per process (time:16294, interval:10) > > find hit add remove file > process count ratio pages(B) pages(B) count > -------------------- -------- ---------- -------- -------- ----- > zsh-7761 2968 99.93% 4.0K 0 246 > perf-7758 369 100.00% 0 0 17 > xmms-7634 52 100.00% 0 0 1 > perf-7759 11 100.00% 0 0 2 > zsh-2815 6 83.33% 4.0K 4.0K 2 > gconfd-2-4849 3 0.00% 12.0K 12.0K 4 > rsyslogd-7194 1 100.00% 0 0 1 > > > By these 2 functions, we can find out whether pagecaches are used > efficiently or not. > And also these tools would help us tune some applications like database. > It will also help us tune the kernel parameters like "vm.dirty_*". > > My patches are based on the latest "linux-tip.git" tree and > also the following 3 commits in "tip:tracing/mm" and a "pagecache > object collections" patch. > > - dcac8cd: tracing/mm: add page frame snapshot trace > - 1487a7a: tracing/mm: fix mapcount trace record field > - eb46710: tracing/mm: rename 'trigger' file to 'dump_range' > - http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/9/156 > > Any comments are welcome. I totally like the approach you have taken here. Note that tracepoints need a detailed, careful review from interested mm folks. The set of tracepoints does not have to be complete but the tracepoints have to be well thought out and near-perfect in this context they are instrumenting, with an eye on future extensions with the goal of making them painless. the pagecache tracepoints you have added are: include/trace/events/filemap.h | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ mm/filemap.c | 4 ++ mm/truncate.c | 2 + mm/vmscan.c | 2 + 4 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) So once such kind of review has been iterated through and Andrew et al is happy with it i'd be more than happy to dust off the tracing/mm bits (which have been done two years ago) and get it all to Linus. Andrew, Mel, Fengguang? Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>