.TH biolatpcts 8  "2020-04-17" "USER COMMANDS"
.SH NAME
biolatpcts \- Monitor IO latency distribution of a block device.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B biolatpcts [\-h] [\-i INTERVAL] [\-w which] [\-p PCT,...] [\-j] [\-v] DEV
.SH DESCRIPTION

biolatpcts traces block device I/O (disk I/O) of the specified device, and
calculates and prints the completion latency distribution percentiles per IO
type periodically. Example:

 # biolatpcts /dev/nvme0n1
 nvme0n1    p1    p5   p10   p16   p25   p50   p75   p84   p90   p95   p99  p100
 read     95us 175us 305us 515us 895us 985us 995us 1.5ms 2.5ms 3.5ms 4.5ms  10ms
 write     5us   5us   5us  15us  25us 135us 765us 855us 885us 895us 965us 1.5ms
 discard   5us   5us   5us   5us 135us 145us 165us 205us 385us 875us 1.5ms 2.5ms
 flush     5us   5us   5us   5us   5us   5us   5us   5us   5us 1.5ms 4.5ms 5.5ms
 [...]

biolatpcts prints a number of pre-set latency percentiles in tabular form
every three seconds. The interval can be changed with the \-i option.

The latency is measured between issue to the device and completion. The
starting point can be changed with the \-w option.

Any number of percentiles can be specified using the \-p option. The input
percentile string is used verbatim in the output to ease machine consumption.

\-j option enables json output. The result for each interval is printed on a
single line.

This tool works by tracing blk_account_io_done() with kprobe and bucketing the
completion latencies into percpu arrays. It may need updating to match the
changes to the function.

Since this uses BPF, only the root user can use this tool.
.SH REQUIREMENTS
CONFIG_BPF, CONFIG_KPROBES and bcc.
.SH OPTIONS
\-h
Print usage message.
.TP
\-i INTERVAL, \-\-interval INTERVAL
Report interval. (default: 3)
.TP
\-w {from\-rq\-alloc,after\-rq\-alloc,on\-device}, \-\-which {from\-rq\-alloc,after\-rq\-alloc,on\-device}
Which latency to measure. (default: on-device)
.TP
\-p PCT,..., \-\-pcts PCT,...
Percentiles to calculate. (default: 1,5,10,16,25,50,75,84,90,95,99,100)
.TP
\-j, \-\-json
Output in json.
.TP
\-v, \-\-verbose
Enable debug output.
.TP
DEV
Target block device. /dev/DEVNAME, DEVNAME or MAJ:MIN.
.SH EXAMPLES
.TP
Print sda's I/O latency percentiles every second
#
.B biolatpcts \-i 1 sda
.TP
Print nvme0n1's all-9 I/O latency percentiles in json every second
#
.B biolatpcts \-p 99,99.9,99.99,99.999 \-j \-i 1 /dev/nvme0n1
.SH OVERHEAD
This traces kernel functions and maintains in-kernel per-cpu latency buckets,
which are asynchronously copied to user-space. This method is very efficient,
and the overhead for most storage I/O rates should be negligible. If you have
an extremely high IOPS storage device, test and quantify the overhead before
use.
.SH SOURCE
This is from bcc.
.IP
https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
.PP
Also look in the bcc distribution for a companion _examples.txt file containing
example usage, output, and commentary for this tool.
.SH OS
Linux
.SH AUTHOR
Tejun Heo
.SH SEE ALSO
biolatency(8), biosnoop(8)