NAME

virtiostat - Trace VIRTIO devices input/output statistics. Uses Linux eBPF/bcc.

SYNOPSIS

virtiostat [-h] [-T] [-D] [-d DRIVER] [-n DEVNAME] [INTERVAL] [COUNT]

DESCRIPTION

This tool traces VIRTIO devices input/output statistics. It works in lower layer of VIRTIO base driver, so it could trace all the devices of VIRTIO family. For example, we can't get IO statistics of 9p-fs in a guest virtual machine by iostat command, but we can analyze IO statistics by virtiostat. The outputing result shows In/Out SGs(scatter list operation) to represent positive correlation IOPS, and In/Out BW to represent throughput.

Since this uses BPF, only the root user can use this tool.

REQUIREMENTS

CONFIG_BPF and bcc.

OPTIONS

-h: Print usage message.
-T: Include a time column on output (HH:MM:SS).
-D: Show debug infomation of bpf text.
-d DRIVER: Filter for driver name.
-n DEVNAME: Filter for device name.
INTERVAL: Print output every interval seconds.
COUNT: Total count of trace in seconds.

EXAMPLES

Trace virtio device statistics and print 1 second summaries, 10 times:: # virtiostat 1 10
Trace virtio block deivces only:: # virtiostat -d virtio_blk

OVERHEAD

This traces the kernel virtqueue_add_sgs, virtqueue_add_outbuf, virtqueue_add_inbuf, virtqueue_add_inbuf_ctx functions. The rate of this depends on all the VIRTIO devices IOPS.

SOURCE

This is from bcc.

: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc

Also look in the bcc distribution for a companion _examples.txt file containing example usage, output, and commentary for this tool.

OS

Linux

STABILITY

Unstable - in development.

AUTHOR

zhenwei pi