Re: [RFC PATCH] ceph: add remote object copy counter to fs client

[Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>]

On 10/26/21 11:31 PM, Luís Henriques wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 07:40:51AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
>> On Tue, 2021-10-26 at 11:05 +0800, Xiubo Li wrote:
>>> On 10/22/21 1:30 AM, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 12:35 PM Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 2021-10-21 at 12:18 -0400, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:44 AM Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, 2021-10-21 at 09:52 -0400, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:27 PM Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 2021-10-20 at 15:37 +0100, Luís Henriques wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> This counter will keep track of the number of remote object copies done on
>>>>>>>>>> copy_file_range syscalls.  This counter will be filesystem per-client, and
>>>>>>>>>> can be accessed from the client debugfs directory.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Cc: Patrick Donnelly <pdonnell@redhat.com>
>>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Luís Henriques <lhenriques@suse.de>
>>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>>> This is an RFC to reply to Patrick's request in [0].  Note that I'm not
>>>>>>>>>> 100% sure about the usefulness of this patch, or if this is the best way
>>>>>>>>>> to provide the functionality Patrick requested.  Anyway, this is just to
>>>>>>>>>> get some feedback, hence the RFC.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>> Luís
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> [0] https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/42720
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I think this would be better integrated into the stats infrastructure.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Maybe you could add a new set of "copy" stats to struct
>>>>>>>>> ceph_client_metric that tracks the total copy operations done, their
>>>>>>>>> size and latency (similar to read and write ops)?
>>>>>>>> I think it's a good idea to integrate this into "stats" but I think a
>>>>>>>> local debugfs file for some counters is still useful. The "stats"
>>>>>>>> module is immature at this time and I'd rather not build any qa tests
>>>>>>>> (yet) that rely on it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Can we generalize this patch-set to a file named "op_counters" or
>>>>>>>> similar and additionally add other OSD ops performed by the kclient?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tracking this sort of thing is the main purpose of the stats code. I'm
>>>>>>> really not keen on adding a whole separate set of files for reporting
>>>>>>> this.
>>>>>> Maybe I'm confused. Is there some "file" which is already used for
>>>>>> this type of debugging information? Or do you mean the code for
>>>>>> sending stats to the MDS to support cephfs-top?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What's the specific problem with relying on the data in debugfs
>>>>>>> "metrics" file?
>>>>>> Maybe no problem? I wasn't aware of a "metrics" file.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Yes. For instance:
>>>>>
>>>>> # cat /sys/kernel/debug/ceph/*/metrics
>>>>> item                               total
>>>>> ------------------------------------------
>>>>> opened files  / total inodes       0 / 4
>>>>> pinned i_caps / total inodes       5 / 4
>>>>> opened inodes / total inodes       0 / 4
>>>>>
>>>>> item          total       avg_lat(us)     min_lat(us)     max_lat(us)     stdev(us)
>>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> read          0           0               0               0               0
>>>>> write         5           914013          824797          1092343         103476
>>>>> metadata      79          12856           1572            114572          13262
>>>>>
>>>>> item          total       avg_sz(bytes)   min_sz(bytes)   max_sz(bytes)  total_sz(bytes)
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> read          0           0               0               0               0
>>>>> write         5           4194304         4194304         4194304         20971520
>>>>>
>>>>> item          total           miss            hit
>>>>> -------------------------------------------------
>>>>> d_lease       11              0               29
>>>>> caps          5               68              10702
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm proposing that Luis add new lines for "copy" to go along with the
>>>>> "read" and "write" ones. The "total" counter should give you a count of
>>>>> the number of operations.
>>>> Okay that makes more sense!
>>>>
>>>> Side note: I am a bit horrified by how computer-unfriendly that
>>>> table-formatted data is.
>>> Any suggestion to improve this ?
>>>
>>> How about just make the "metric" file writable like a switch ? And as
>>> default it will show the data as above and if tools want the
>>> computer-friendly format, just write none-zero to it, then show raw data
>>> just like:
>>>
>>> # cat /sys/kernel/debug/ceph/*/metrics
>>> opened_files:0
>>> pinned_i_caps:5
>>> opened_inodes:0
>>> total_inodes:4
>>>
>>> read_latency:0,0,0,0,0
>>> write_latency:5,914013,824797,1092343,103476
>>> metadata_latency:79,12856,1572,114572,13262
>>>
>>> read_size:0,0,0,0,0
>>> write_size:5,4194304,4194304,4194304,20971520
>>>
>>> d_lease:11,0,29
>>> caps:5,68,10702
>>>
>>>
>> I'd rather not multiplex the output of this file based on some input.
>> That would also be rather hard to do -- write() and read() are two
>> different syscalls, so you'd need to track a bool (or something) across
>> them somehow.
>>
>> Currently, I doubt there are many scripts in the field that scrape this
>> info and debugfs is specifically excluded from ABI concerns. If we want
>> to make it more machine-readable (which sounds like a good thing), then
>> I suggest we just change the output to something like what you have
>> above and not worry about preserving the "legacy" output.
> Ok, before submitting any new revision of this patch I should probably
> clean this up.  I can submit a patch to change the format to what Xiubo is
> proposing.  Obviously, that patch will also need to document what all
> those fields actually mean.
>
> Alternatively, the metrics file could be changed into a directory and have
> 4 different files, one per each section:
>
>    metrics/
>     |- files <-- not sure how to name the 1st section
>     |- latency
>     |- size
>     \- caps
>
> Each of these files would then have the header but, since it's a single
> header, parsing it in a script would be pretty easy.  The advantage is
> that this would be self-documented (with filenames and headers).

This sounds good to me.


>
> Cheers,
> --
> Luís
>