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BTREPLAY(8) | BTREPLAY(8) |
NAME¶
btreplay - recreate IO loads recorded by blktraceSYNOPSIS¶
btreplay [ options ] <dev...>DESCRIPTION¶
The btrecord and btreplay tools provide the ability to record and replay IOs captured by the blktrace utility. Attempts are made to maintain ordering, CPU mappings and time-separation of IOs. The blktrace utility provides the ability to collect detailed traces from the kernel for each IO processed by the block IO layer. The traces provide a complete timeline for each IO processed, including detailed information concerning when an IO was first received by the block IO layer — indicating the device, CPU number, time stamp, IO direction, sector number and IO size (number of sectors). Using this information, one is able to replay the IO again on the same machine or another set up entirely. The basic operating work-flow to replay IOs would be something like:- -
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Run blktrace to collect traces. Here you specify the
device or devices that you wish to trace and later replay IOs upon. Note:
the only traces you are interested in are QUEUE requests —
thus, to save system resources (including storage for traces), one could
specify the -a queue command line option to blktrace.
- -
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While blktrace is running, you run the workload that you
are interested in.
- -
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When the work load has completed, you stop the blktrace
utility (thus saving all traces over the complete workload).
- -
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You extract the pertinent IO information from the traces saved by
blktrace using the btrecord utility. This will parse
each trace file created by blktrace, and crafty IO descriptions
to be used in the next phase of the workload processing.
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Once btrecord has successfully created a series of data
files to be processed, you can run the btreplay utility which
attempts to generate the same IOs seen during the sample workload phase.
OPTIONS¶
-c < num>Set number of CPUs to use.
-d < dir>
Set input directory. This option requires a single
parameter providing the directory name for where input files are to be found.
The default directory is the current directory ( .).
-F
Find record files automatically This option instructs
btreplay to go find all the record files in the directory specified
(either via the -d option, or in the default directory (
.).
-h
Show help and exit.
-i < basename>
Set base name for input files. Each input file has 3
fields:
-I < num>
- 1.
-
Device identifier (taken directly from the device name of the
blktrace output file).
- 2.
-
btrecord base name — by default ``replay''.
- 3.
-
The CPU number (again, taken directly from the
blktrace output file name).
Set number of iterations to run. This option requires a
single parameter which specifies the number of times to run through the input
files. The default value is 1
-M < filename>
Specify device mappings. This option requires a single
parameter which specifies the name of a file contain device mappings. The file
must be very simply managed, with just two pieces of data per line:
-N
- -
-
The device name on the recorded system (with the ' /dev/'
removed). Example: /dev/sda would just be sda.
- -
-
The device name on the replay system to use (again, without the
' /dev/' path prepended).
-
sda sdg sdb sdh
Disable pre-bunch stalls. When specified on the command
line, all pre-bunch stall indicators will be ignored. IOs will be replayed
without inter-bunch delays.
-x < factor>
Specify acceleration factor. Default value is 1 (no
acceleration).
-v
Enable verbose output. When specified on the command
line, this option instructs btreplay to store information concerning
each stall and IO operation performed by btreplay. The name of
each file so created will be the input file name used with an extension of
.rep appended onto it. Thus, an input file of the name
sdab.replay.3 would generate a verbose output file with the name
sdab.replay.3.rep in the directory specified for input files.
In addition, btreplay will also output to stderr the names of the
input files being processed.
-V
Show version number and exit.
-W
Enable writing during replay. As a precautionary measure,
by default btreplay will not process write requests. In order to
enable btreplay to actually write to devices one must explicitly
specify the -W option.
AUTHORS¶
btreplay was written by Alan D. Brunelle. This man page was created from the btreplay documentation by Bas Zoetekouw.REPORTING BUGS¶
Report bugs to <linux-btrace@vger.kernel.org>COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2007 Alan D. Brunelle, Alan D. Brunelle and Nathan Scott.SEE ALSO¶
The full documentation for btreplay can be found in /usr/share/doc/blktrace on Debian systems.December 8, 2007 | blktrace git-20071207142532 |