Re: Per process I/O (was Decorating a kernel function).

2007-02-25 Thread Tzahi Fadida
On Friday 23 February 2007 02:11, Amos Shapira wrote:
 Assuming the above (i.e. files are mostly not written concurrently by
 multiple processes), maybe you can try to track write(2) system calls.
 Mulli's old syscalltack (http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/) should have
 been able to do this for you if it was still relevant for current kernels
 (is it?)

I wonder if it is still relevant? Can someone say what are the advantages of 
using (=after porting of course) syscalltrack in 2.6 kernel over existing 
solutions. Like, for example, debugging uml, using kprobes, etc...
In addition, i think that in 2.4 there was some kind of syscall table which 
was exported and which you could replace syscall functions, but in 2.6 they 
stopped this practice and made this technique obsolete if not highly 
difficult/impossible.


 --Amos

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Re: Per process I/O (was Decorating a kernel function).

2007-02-22 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef

Tzahi Fadida wrote:

A bit of a followup from my previous question.
Are there already solutions to the per process I/O stats?


For reason already explained on this mailing list before, your request is 
meaningless.

The read/write etc. operation of a process translate very badly to real I/O ops.

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Re: Per process I/O (was Decorating a kernel function).

2007-02-22 Thread Tzahi Fadida
On Thursday 22 February 2007 14:51, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
 Tzahi Fadida wrote:
  A bit of a followup from my previous question.
  Are there already solutions to the per process I/O stats?

 For reason already explained on this mailing list before, your request is
 meaningless.

 The read/write etc. operation of a process translate very badly to real I/O
 ops.

It may not be accurate from various reasons, namely, the I/O queue CFQ,etc...
which delays certain writes reads depending on the position of the head of the 
disk. In addition, dirtied buffers which are written to disk in unknown 
future time.
However, for the purposes of what most people needs this, it should do.
For example, most people are interested to know, what process is generating 
most/a lot of/not at all  I/O requests and they will be willing to take an 
estimate. For that it will suffice. Unless, of course, there is a facility in 
linux that does that, that i am unaware of.


 Gilad

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