Re: Re: [PATCH v7] io_uring: Statistics of the true utilization of sq threads.

From: Xiaobing Li
Date: Tue Jan 30 2024 - 02:52:46 EST


On 1/29/24 14:00, Jens Axboe wrote:
>On 1/29/24 12:18 AM, Xiaobing Li wrote:
>> On 1/18/24 19:34, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>> diff --git a/io_uring/sqpoll.h b/io_uring/sqpoll.h
>>>> index 8df37e8c9149..c14c00240443 100644
>>>> --- a/io_uring/sqpoll.h
>>>> +++ b/io_uring/sqpoll.h
>>>> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ struct io_sq_data {
>>>> pid_t task_pid;
>>>> pid_t task_tgid;
>>>>
>>>> + long long work_time;
>>>> unsigned long state;
>>>> struct completion exited;
>>>> };
>>>
>>> Probably just make that an u64.
>>>
>>> As Pavel mentioned, I think we really need to consider if fdinfo is the
>>> appropriate API for this. It's fine if you're running stuff directly and
>>> you're just curious, but it's a very cumbersome API in general as you
>>> need to know the pid of the task holding the ring, the fd of the ring,
>>> and then you can get it as a textual description. If this is something
>>> that is deemed useful, would it not make more sense to make it
>>> programatically available in addition, or even exclusively?
>>
>> Hi, Jens and Pavel
>> sorry for the late reply.
>>
>> I've tried some other methods, but overall, I haven't found a more suitable
>> method than fdinfo.
>> If you think it is troublesome to obtain the PID, then I can provide
>> a shell script to output the total_time and work_time of all sqpoll threads
>> to the terminal, so that we do not have to manually obtain the PID of each
>> thread (the script can be placed in tools/ include/io_uring).
>>
>> eg:
>>
>> PID WorkTime(us) TotalTime(us) COMMAND
>> 9330 1106578 2215321 iou-sqp-9329
>> 9454 1510658 1715321 iou-sqp-9453
>> 9478 165785 223219 iou-sqp-9477
>> 9587 106578 153217 iou-sqp-9586
>>
>> What do you think of this solution?
>
>I don't think it's a great interface, but at the same time, I don't feel
>that strongly about it and perhaps bundling a script that outputs the
>above in liburing would be Good Enough. I'm a bit reluctant to add a
>stats API via io_uring_register() just for this.
>
>So maybe spin a v8 with the s/long long/u64 change and include your
>script as well?

ok, I'll send out a v8.

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Xiaobing Li