Perf histograms

Perf histograms

The perf histograms build on perf counters infrastructure. Histograms are built for a number of counters and simplify gathering data on which groups of counter values occur most often over time.Perf histograms are currently unsigned 64-bit integer counters, so they’re mostly useful for time and sizes. Data dumped by perf histogram can then be feed into other analysis tools/scripts.

Access

The perf histogram data are accessed via the admin socket. For example:

ceph daemon osd.0 perf histogram schema
ceph daemon osd.0 perf histogram dump

Collections

The histograms are grouped into named collections, normally representing a subsystem or an instance of a subsystem. For example, the internal throttle mechanism reports statistics on how it is throttling, and each instance is named something like:

op_r_latency_out_bytes_histogram
op_rw_latency_in_bytes_histogram
op_rw_latency_out_bytes_histogram
...

Schema

The perf histogram schema command dumps a json description of which values are available, and what their type is. Each named value as a type bitfield, with the 5-th bit always set and following bits defined.

bit	meaning
1	floating point value
2	unsigned 64-bit integer value
4	average (sum + count pair)
8	counter (vs gauge)

In other words, histogram of type “18” is a histogram of unsigned 64-bit integer values (16 + 2).

Here is an example of the schema output:

{
    "AsyncMessenger::Worker-0": {},
    "AsyncMessenger::Worker-1": {},
    "AsyncMessenger::Worker-2": {},
    "mutex-WBThrottle::lock": {},
    "objecter": {},
    "osd": {
        "op_r_latency_out_bytes_histogram": {
            "type": 18,
            "description": "Histogram of operation latency (including queue time) +   da  ta read",
            "nick": ""
        },
        "op_w_latency_in_bytes_histogram": {
            "type": 18,
            "description": "Histogram of operation latency (including queue time) +   da  ta written",
            "nick": ""
        },
        "op_rw_latency_in_bytes_histogram": {
            "type": 18,
            "description": "Histogram of rw operation latency (including queue time)   +   data written",
            "nick": ""
        },
        "op_rw_latency_out_bytes_histogram": {
            "type": 18,
            "description": "Histogram of rw operation latency (including queue time)   +   data read",
            "nick": ""
        }
    }
}

Dump

The actual dump is similar to the schema, except that there are actual value groups. For example:

"osd": {
    "op_r_latency_out_bytes_histogram": {
        "axes": [
            {
                "name": "Latency (usec)",
                "min": 0,
                "quant_size": 100000,
                "buckets": 32,
                "scale_type": "log2",
                "ranges": [
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                        "max": -1
                    },
                    {
                        "min": 0,
                        "max": 99999
                    },
                    {
                        "min": 100000,
                        "max": 199999
                    },
                    {
                        "min": 200000,
                        "max": 399999
                    },
                    {
                        "min": 400000,
                        "max": 799999
                    },
                    {
                        "min": 800000,
                        "max": 1599999
                    },
                    {
                        "min": 1600000,
                        "max": 3199999
                    },
                    {
                        "min": 3200000,
                        "max": 6399999
                    },
                    {
                        "min": 6400000,
                        "max": 12799999
                    },
                    {
                        "min": 12800000,
                        "max": 25599999
                    },
                    {
                        "min": 25600000,
                        "max": 51199999
                    },
                    {
                        "min": 51200000,
                        "max": 102399999
                    },
                    {
                        "min": 102400000,
                        "max": 204799999
                    },
                    {
                        "min": 204800000,
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                    },
                    {
                        "min": 409600000,
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                    {
                        "min": 819200000,
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                    },
                    {
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                    },
                    {
                        "min": 3276800000,
                        "max": 6553599999
                    },
                    {
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                    },
                    {
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                    },
                    {
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                    },
                    {
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                    },
                    {
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                    {
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                    },
                    {
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                    {
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                    {
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                    {
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            },
            {
                "name": "Request size (bytes)",
                "min": 0,
                "quant_size": 512,
                "buckets": 32,
                "scale_type": "log2",
                "ranges": [
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                    {
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This represents the 2d histogram, consisting of 9 history entrires and 32 value groups per each history entry.“Ranges” element denote value bounds for each of value groups. “Buckets” denote amount of value groups (“buckets”),“Min” is a minimum accepted valaue, “quant_size” is quantization unit and “scale_type” is either “log2” (logarhitmicscale) or “linear” (linear scale).You can use histogram_dump.py tool (see src/tools/histogram_dump.py) for quick visualisation of existing histogramdata.