nilfs2: add a tracepoint for tracking stage transition of segment construction
This patch adds a tracepoint for tracking stage transition of block collection in segment construction. With the tracepoint, we can analysis the behavior of segment construction in depth. It would be useful for bottleneck detection and debugging, etc. The tracepoint is created with the standard trace API of linux (like ext3, ext4, f2fs and btrfs). So we can analysis with existing tools easily. Of course, more detailed analysis will be possible if we can create nilfs specific analysis tools. Below is an example of event dump with Brendan Gregg's perf-tools (https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools). Time consumption between each stage can be obtained. $ sudo bin/tpoint nilfs2:nilfs2_collection_stage_transition Tracing nilfs2:nilfs2_collection_stage_transition. Ctrl-C to end. segctord-14875 [003] ...1 28311.067794: nilfs2_collection_stage_transition: sci = ffff8800ce6de000 stage = ST_INIT segctord-14875 [003] ...1 28311.068139: nilfs2_collection_stage_transition: sci = ffff8800ce6de000 stage = ST_GC segctord-14875 [003] ...1 28311.068139: nilfs2_collection_stage_transition: sci = ffff8800ce6de000 stage = ST_FILE segctord-14875 [003] ...1 28311.068486: nilfs2_collection_stage_transition: sci = ffff8800ce6de000 stage = ST_IFILE segctord-14875 [003] ...1 28311.068540: nilfs2_collection_stage_transition: sci = ffff8800ce6de000 stage = ST_CPFILE segctord-14875 [003] ...1 28311.068561: nilfs2_collection_stage_transition: sci = ffff8800ce6de000 stage = ST_SUFILE segctord-14875 [003] ...1 28311.068565: nilfs2_collection_stage_transition: sci = ffff8800ce6de000 stage = ST_DAT segctord-14875 [003] ...1 28311.068573: nilfs2_collection_stage_transition: sci = ffff8800ce6de000 stage = ST_SR segctord-14875 [003] ...1 28311.068574: nilfs2_collection_stage_transition: sci = ffff8800ce6de000 stage = ST_DONE For capturing transition correctly, this patch adds wrappers for the member scnt of nilfs_cstage. With this change, every transition of the stage can produce trace event in a correct manner. Signed-off-by:Hitoshi Mitake <mitake.hitoshi@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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