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YOW2020 Linux Systems Performance

Brendan Gregg
Brendan Gregg

This document presents a comprehensive overview of Linux systems performance, focusing on observability and various tools for performance measurement and analysis. It emphasizes essential methodologies for benchmarking, profiling, tracing, and tuning, along with practical command-line tools to enhance understanding of system metrics. The discussion includes insights into tools like 'top', 'htop', 'vmstat', 'iostat', and 'strace', among others, which are crucial for diagnosing and addressing performance issues.

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Linux Systems Performance Brendan Gregg Senior Performance Engineer Sep, 2020 Auckland, Perth, Singapore, Hong Kong
What I’m currently working on
Application Request Time On-CPU Time Off-CPU Time
Application Request Time On-CPU Time Off-CPU Time CPU Flame Graph Off-CPU Flame Graph
7fffc102ca03 nf_conntrack_in ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fffc10d341c ipv4_conntrack_local ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9deb09d8 nf_hook_slow ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9debe6c7 __ip_local_out ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9debe74c ip_local_out ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9debeab0 ip_queue_xmit ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9ded8e02 __tcp_transmit_skb ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9deda3f4 tcp_write_xmit ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9dedb215 __tcp_push_pending_frames ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9dec684b tcp_push ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9deca337 tcp_sendmsg_locked ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9decae5c tcp_sendmsg ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9defa8ee inet_sendmsg ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9de4a41e sock_sendmsg ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9de4a9af SYSC_sendto ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9de4b49e sys_sendto ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9d605bb3 do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9e002081 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe ([kernel.kallsyms]) 119ae __libc_send (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.27.so) X Off-CPU stacks often end abruptly in libc
More than one way to walk a stack Frame pointers Last branch record (LBR) Branch trace store (BTS) DWARF ORC Application exception handler ... We’re currently rolling out our own build of libc with frame pointers (-fno-omit-frame-pointer)
Systems Performance in 45 mins • This is slides + discussion • For more detail and stand-alone texts:
Agenda 1. Observability 2. Methodologies 3. Benchmarking 4. Profiling 5. Tracing 6. Tuning
YOW2020 Linux Systems Performance
1. Observability
How do you measure these?
Linux Observability Tools
Why Learn Tools? • Most analysis at Netflix is via GUIs • Benefits of command-line tools: – Helps you understand GUIs: they show the same metrics – Often documented, unlike GUI metrics – Often have useful options not exposed in GUIs • Installing essential tools (something like): $ sudo apt-get install sysstat bcc-tools bpftrace linux-tools-common linux-tools-$(uname -r) iproute2 msr-tools $ git clone https://github.com/brendangregg/msr-cloud-tools $ git clone https://github.com/brendangregg/bpf-perf-tools-book These are crisis tools and should be installed by default In a performance meltdown you may be unable to install them
uptime • One way to print load averages: • A measure of resource demand: CPUs + disks – Includes TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state to show all demand types – You can use BPF & off-CPU flame graphs to explain this state: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-08-08/linux-load-averages.html – PSI in Linux 4.20 shows CPU, I/O, and memory loads • Exponentially-damped moving averages – With time constants of 1, 5, and 15 minutes. See historic trend. • Load > # of CPUs, may mean CPU saturation $ uptime 07:42:06 up 8:16, 1 user, load average: 2.27, 2.84, 2.91 Don’t spend more than 5 seconds studying these
top • System and per-process interval summary: • %CPU is summed across all CPUs • Can miss short-lived processes (atop won’t) $ top - 18:50:26 up 7:43, 1 user, load average: 4.11, 4.91, 5.22 Tasks: 209 total, 1 running, 206 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie Cpu(s): 47.1%us, 4.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 48.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.2%st Mem: 70197156k total, 44831072k used, 25366084k free, 36360k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 11873356k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 5738 apiprod 20 0 62.6g 29g 352m S 417 44.2 2144:15 java 1386 apiprod 20 0 17452 1388 964 R 0 0.0 0:00.02 top 1 root 20 0 24340 2272 1340 S 0 0.0 0:01.51 init 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd […]
htop • Pros: configurable. Cons: misleading colors. • dstat is similar, and now dead (May 2019); see pcp-dstat $ htop 1 [||||||||||70.0%] 13 [||||||||||70.6%] 25 [||||||||||69.7%] 37 [||||||||||66.6%] 2 [||||||||||68.7%] 14 [||||||||||69.4%] 26 [||||||||||67.7%] 38 [||||||||||66.0%] 3 [||||||||||68.2%] 15 [||||||||||68.5%] 27 [||||||||||68.8%] 39 [||||||||||73.3%] 4 [||||||||||69.3%] 16 [||||||||||69.2%] 28 [||||||||||67.6%] 40 [||||||||||67.0%] 5 [||||||||||68.0%] 17 [||||||||||67.6%] 29 [||||||||||70.1%] 41 [||||||||||66.5%] […] Mem[||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||176G/187G] Tasks: 80, 3206 thr; 43 running Swp[ 0K/0K] Load average: 36.95 37.19 38.29 Uptime: 01:39:36 PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command 4067 www-data 20 0 202G 173G 55392 S 3359 93.0 48h51:30 /apps/java/bin/java -Dnop -Djdk.map 6817 www-data 20 0 202G 173G 55392 R 56.9 93.0 48:37.89 /apps/java/bin/java -Dnop -Djdk.map 6826 www-data 20 0 202G 173G 55392 R 25.7 93.0 22:26.90 /apps/java/bin/java -Dnop -Djdk.map 6721 www-data 20 0 202G 173G 55392 S 25.0 93.0 22:05.51 /apps/java/bin/java -Dnop -Djdk.map 6616 www-data 20 0 202G 173G 55392 S 13.6 93.0 11:15.51 /apps/java/bin/java -Dnop -Djdk.map […] F1Help F2Setup F3SearchF4FilterF5Tree F6SortByF7Nice -F8Nice +F9Kill F10Quit
vmstat • Virtual memory statistics and more: • USAGE: vmstat [interval [count]] • First output line has some summary since boot values • High level CPU summary – “r” is runnable tasks $ vmstat –Sm 1 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 8 0 0 1620 149 552 0 0 1 179 77 12 25 34 0 0 7 0 0 1598 149 552 0 0 0 0 205 186 46 13 0 0 8 0 0 1617 149 552 0 0 0 8 210 435 39 21 0 0 8 0 0 1589 149 552 0 0 0 0 218 219 42 17 0 0 […]
iostat • Block I/O (disk) stats. 1st output is since boot. $ iostat -xz 1 Linux 5.0.21 (c099.xxxx) 06/24/19 _x86_64_ (32 CPU) [...] Device r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s rrqm/s wrqm/s %rrqm %wrqm ... sda 0.01 0.00 0.16 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 /... nvme3n1 19528.04 20.39 293152.56 14758.05 0.00 4.72 0.00 18.81 ... nvme1n1 18513.51 17.83 286402.15 13089.56 0.00 4.05 0.00 18.52 /... nvme0n1 16560.88 19.70 258184.52 14218.55 0.00 4.78 0.00 19.51 ... ... r_await w_await aqu-sz rareq-sz wareq-sz svctm %util .../ 1.90 0.00 0.00 17.01 0.00 1.13 0.00 ... 0.13 53.56 1.05 15.01 723.80 0.02 47.29 .../ 0.13 49.26 0.85 15.47 734.21 0.03 48.09 ... 0.13 50.46 0.96 15.59 721.65 0.03 46.64 Workload Resulting Performance Very useful set of stats
free • Main memory usage: • Recently added “available” column – buff/cache: block device I/O cache + virtual page cache – available: memory likely available to apps – free: completely unused memory $ free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 23850 18248 592 3776 5008 1432 Swap: 31699 2021 29678
strace • System call tracer: • Translates syscall arguments • Not all kernel requests (e.g., page faults) • Currently has massive overhead (ptrace based) – Can slow the target by > 100x. Skews measured time (-ttt, -T). – http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-11/strace-wow-much-syscall.html • perf trace will replace it: uses a ring buffer & BPF $ strace –tttT –p 313 1408393285.779746 getgroups(0, NULL) = 1 <0.000016> 1408393285.779873 getgroups(1, [0]) = 1 <0.000015> 1408393285.780797 close(3) = 0 <0.000016> 1408393285.781338 write(1, "wow much syscalln", 17wow much syscall ) = 17 <0.000048>
tcpdump • Sniff network packets for post analysis: • Study packet sequences with timestamps (us) • CPU overhead optimized (socket ring buffers), but can still be significant. Use BPF in-kernel summaries instead. $ tcpdump -i eth0 -w /tmp/out.tcpdump tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes ^C7985 packets captured 8996 packets received by filter 1010 packets dropped by kernel # tcpdump -nr /tmp/out.tcpdump | head reading from file /tmp/out.tcpdump, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet) 20:41:05.038437 IP 10.44.107.151.22 > 10.53.237.72.46425: Flags [P.], seq 18... 20:41:05.038533 IP 10.44.107.151.22 > 10.53.237.72.46425: Flags [P.], seq 48... 20:41:05.038584 IP 10.44.107.151.22 > 10.53.237.72.46425: Flags [P.], seq 96... […]
nstat • Replacement for netstat from iproute2 • Various network protocol statistics: – -s won’t reset counters, otherwise intervals can be examined – -d for daemon mode • Linux keeps adding more counters $ nstat -s #kernel IpInReceives 31109659 0.0 IpInDelivers 31109371 0.0 IpOutRequests 33209552 0.0 [...] TcpActiveOpens 508924 0.0 TcpPassiveOpens 388584 0.0 TcpAttemptFails 933 0.0 TcpEstabResets 1545 0.0 TcpInSegs 31099176 0.0 TcpOutSegs 56254112 0.0 TcpRetransSegs 3762 0.0 TcpOutRsts 3183 0.0 [...]
slabtop • Kernel slab allocator memory usage: $ slabtop Active / Total Objects (% used) : 4692768 / 4751161 (98.8%) Active / Total Slabs (% used) : 129083 / 129083 (100.0%) Active / Total Caches (% used) : 71 / 109 (65.1%) Active / Total Size (% used) : 729966.22K / 738277.47K (98.9%) Minimum / Average / Maximum Object : 0.01K / 0.16K / 8.00K OBJS ACTIVE USE OBJ SIZE SLABS OBJ/SLAB CACHE SIZE NAME 3565575 3565575 100% 0.10K 91425 39 365700K buffer_head 314916 314066 99% 0.19K 14996 21 59984K dentry 184192 183751 99% 0.06K 2878 64 11512K kmalloc-64 138618 138618 100% 0.94K 4077 34 130464K xfs_inode 138602 138602 100% 0.21K 3746 37 29968K xfs_ili 102116 99012 96% 0.55K 3647 28 58352K radix_tree_node 97482 49093 50% 0.09K 2321 42 9284K kmalloc-96 22695 20777 91% 0.05K 267 85 1068K shared_policy_node 21312 21312 100% 0.86K 576 37 18432K ext4_inode_cache 16288 14601 89% 0.25K 509 32 4072K kmalloc-256 […]
pcstat • Show page cache residency by file: • Uses mincore(2) syscall. Used for database perf analysis. # ./pcstat data0* |----------+----------------+------------+-----------+---------| | Name | Size | Pages | Cached | Percent | |----------+----------------+------------+-----------+---------| | data00 | 104857600 | 25600 | 25600 | 100.000 | | data01 | 104857600 | 25600 | 25600 | 100.000 | | data02 | 104857600 | 25600 | 4080 | 015.938 | | data03 | 104857600 | 25600 | 25600 | 100.000 | | data04 | 104857600 | 25600 | 16010 | 062.539 | | data05 | 104857600 | 25600 | 0 | 000.000 | |----------+----------------+------------+-----------+---------|
docker stats • Soft limits (cgroups) by container: • Stats are in /sys/fs/cgroups • CPU shares and bursting breaks monitoring assumptions # docker stats CONTAINER CPU % MEM USAGE / LIMIT MEM % NET I/O BLOCK I/O PIDS 353426a09db1 526.81% 4.061 GiB / 8.5 GiB 47.78% 0 B / 0 B 2.818 MB / 0 B 247 6bf166a66e08 303.82% 3.448 GiB / 8.5 GiB 40.57% 0 B / 0 B 2.032 MB / 0 B 267 58dcf8aed0a7 41.01% 1.322 GiB / 2.5 GiB 52.89% 0 B / 0 B 0 B / 0 B 229 61061566ffe5 85.92% 220.9 MiB / 3.023 GiB 7.14% 0 B / 0 B 43.4 MB / 0 B 61 bdc721460293 2.69% 1.204 GiB / 3.906 GiB 30.82% 0 B / 0 B 4.35 MB / 0 B 66 6c80ed61ae63 477.45% 557.7 MiB / 8 GiB 6.81% 0 B / 0 B 9.257 MB / 0 B 19 337292fb5b64 89.05% 766.2 MiB / 8 GiB 9.35% 0 B / 0 B 5.493 MB / 0 B 19 b652ede9a605 173.50% 689.2 MiB / 8 GiB 8.41% 0 B / 0 B 6.48 MB / 0 B 19 d7cd2599291f 504.28% 673.2 MiB / 8 GiB 8.22% 0 B / 0 B 12.58 MB / 0 B 19 05bf9f3e0d13 314.46% 711.6 MiB / 8 GiB 8.69% 0 B / 0 B 7.942 MB / 0 B 19 09082f005755 142.04% 693.9 MiB / 8 GiB 8.47% 0 B / 0 B 8.081 MB / 0 B 19 [...]
showboost • Determine current CPU clock rate • Uses MSRs. Can also use PMCs for this. • Also see turbostat. # showboost Base CPU MHz : 2500 Set CPU MHz : 2500 Turbo MHz(s) : 3100 3200 3300 3500 Turbo Ratios : 124% 128% 132% 140% CPU 0 summary every 1 seconds... TIME C0_MCYC C0_ACYC UTIL RATIO MHz 23:39:07 1618910294 89419923 64% 5% 138 23:39:08 1774059258 97132588 70% 5% 136 23:39:09 2476365498 130869241 99% 5% 132 ^C https://github.com/brendangregg/msr-cloud-tools
pmcarch • • • Measures instructions-per-cycle (IPC) and other metrics serverA# ./pmcarch -p 4093 10 K_CYCLES K_INSTR IPC BR_RETIRED BR_MISPRED BMR% LLCREF LLCMISS LLC% 982412660 575706336 0.59 126424862460 2416880487 1.91 15724006692 10872315070 30.86 999621309 555043627 0.56 120449284756 2317302514 1.92 15378257714 11121882510 27.68 991146940 558145849 0.56 126350181501 2530383860 2.00 15965082710 11464682655 28.19 996314688 562276830 0.56 122215605985 2348638980 1.92 15558286345 10835594199 30.35 979890037 560268707 0.57 125609807909 2386085660 1.90 15828820588 11038597030 30.26 ^C serverB# ./pmcarch -p 1928219 10 K_CYCLES K_INSTR IPC BR_RETIRED BR_MISPRED BMR% LLCREF LLCMISS LLC% 147523816 222396364 1.51 46053921119 641813770 1.39 8880477235 968809014 89.09 156634810 229801807 1.47 48236123575 653064504 1.35 9186609260 1183858023 87.11 152783226 237001219 1.55 49344315621 692819230 1.40 9314992450 879494418 90.56 140787179 213570329 1.52 44518363978 631588112 1.42 8675999448 712318917 91.79 136822760 219706637 1.61 45129020910 651436401 1.44 8689831639 617678747 92.89 https://github.com/brendangregg/pmc-cloud-tools
cpuhot • Various thermal info is available in MSRs # dmesg […] [1914678.201791] CPU6: Package temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled ... [1914678.206747] CPU5: Core temperature/speed normal [1914678.206748] CPU6: Package temperature/speed normal […] https://github.com/brendangregg/msr-cloud-tools # ./cpuhot - CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6 CPU7 CPU8 CPU9 CPU10 CPU11 CPU12 CPU13 CPU14 CPU15 CPU16 PROCHOT 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 Celsius 77 75 76 73 76 77 75 72 76 72 75 77 76 72 76 75 Flags 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0
Also: Static Performance Tuning Tools
Where do you start...and stop? Workload Observability Static Configuration
2. Methodologies
Anti-Methodologies • The lack of a deliberate methodology… • Street Light Anti-Method • Drunk Man Anti-Method
Linux Perf Analysis in 60s http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/linux-performance-analysis-in-60s.html 1. uptime 2. dmesg -T | tail 3. vmstat 1 4. mpstat -P ALL 1 5. pidstat 1 6. iostat -xz 1 7. free -m 8. sar -n DEV 1 9. sar -n TCP,ETCP 1 10. top load averages kernel errors overall stats by time CPU balance process usage disk I/O memory usage network I/O TCP stats check overview
USE Method For every resource, check: 1. Utilization 2. Saturation 3. Errors For example, CPUs: - Utilization: time busy - Saturation: run queue length or latency - Errors: ECC errors, etc. Can be applied to hardware and software (cgroups) Resource Utilization (%) Saturation Errors X Start with the questions, then find the tools
Workload Characterization Analyze workload characteristics, not resulting performance For example, CPUs: 1. Who: which PIDs, programs, users 2. Why: code paths, context 3. What: CPU instructions, cycles 4. How: changing over time TargetWorkload
Other Methodologies • Resource analysis • Workload analysis • Drill-down analysis • Off-CPU analysis • Static performance tuning • Performance mantras • Scientific method • 5 whys • … All methodologies summarized: http://www.brendangregg.com/methodology.html
3. Benchmarking
Benchmarking • An experimental analysis activity – Try observational analysis first; benchmarks can perturb • My favorite tools: – fio, lmbench, sysperf, iperf, netperf • Benchmarking is error prone – ~100% of benchmarks are wrong – You benchmark A, but actually measure B, and conclude you measured C caution: benchmarking
Solution: Active Benchmarking • Root cause analysis while the benchmark runs • For any given benchmark, ask: why not 10x? • This takes time, but uncovers most mistakes accurate benchmarking takes serious effort
4. Profiling
Profiling Can you do this? “As an experiment to investigate the performance of the resulting TCP/IP implementation ... the 11/750 is CPU saturated, but the 11/780 has about 30% idle time. The time spent in the system processing the data is spread out among handling for the Ethernet (20%), IP packet processing (10%), TCP processing (30%), checksumming (25%), and user system call handling (15%), with no single part of the handling dominating the time in the system.” – Bill Joy, 1981, TCP-IP Digest, Vol 1 #6 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/museum/tcp-ip-digest/tcp-ip-digest.v1n6.1
perf: CPU profiling • Sampling full stack traces at 99 Hertz, for 30 secs: # perf record -F 99 -ag -- sleep 30 [ perf record: Woken up 9 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 2.745 MB perf.data (~119930 samples) ] # perf report -n --stdio 1.40% 162 java [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock | --- _raw_spin_lock | |--63.21%-- try_to_wake_up | | | |--63.91%-- default_wake_function | | | | | |--56.11%-- __wake_up_common | | | __wake_up_locked | | | ep_poll_callback | | | __wake_up_common | | | __wake_up_sync_key | | | | | | | |--59.19%-- sock_def_readable […78,000 lines truncated…]
Full "perf report" Output
… as a Flame Graph
Flame Graphs • Visualizes a collection of stack traces – x-axis: alphabetical stack sort, to maximize merging – y-axis: stack depth – color: random (default), or a dimension • Perl + SVG + JavaScript – https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph – Takes input from many different profilers – Multiple d3 versions are being developed • References: – http://www.brendangregg.com/FlameGraphs/cpuflamegraphs.html – http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2927301 – "The Flame Graph" CACM, June 2016 Instructions
Linux CPU Flame Graphs Linux 2.6+, via perf: Linux 4.9+, via BPF: – Most efficient: no perf.data file, summarizes in-kernel git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph cd FlameGraph perf record -F 49 -a –g -- sleep 30 perf script --header > out.perf01 ./stackcollapse-perf.pl < out.perf01 |./flamegraph.pl > perf.svg git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iovisor/bcc ./bcc/tools/profile.py -dF 49 30 | ./FlameGraph/flamegraph.pl > perf.svg These files can be read using FlameScope
Mixed-Mode Flame Graphs Java JVM Kernel GC
FlameScope ● Analyze variance, perturbations https://github.com/ Netflix/flamescope Subsecond-offset heat map Flame graph
perf: Counters • Performance Monitoring Counters (PMCs): • • Measure CPU operations, cycles, including stall cycles • PMCs only enabled for some cloud instance types $ perf list | grep –i hardware cpu-cycles OR cycles [Hardware event] stalled-cycles-frontend OR idle-cycles-frontend [Hardware event] stalled-cycles-backend OR idle-cycles-backend [Hardware event] instructions [Hardware event] […] L1-dcache-loads [Hardware cache event] L1-dcache-load-misses [Hardware cache event] […] rNNN (see 'perf list --help' on how to encode it) [Raw hardware event … mem:<addr>[:access] [Hardware breakpoint] My front-ends, incl. pmcarch: https://github.com/brendangregg/pmc-cloud-tools
5. Tracing
Linux Tracing Events
Tracing Stack tracepoints, kprobes, uprobes Ftrace, perf_events, BPF perffront-end tools: tracing frameworks: back-end instrumentation: trace-cmd, perf-tools, bcc, bpftraceadd-on tools: in Linux BPF enables a new class of custom, efficient, and production safe performance analysis tools
Ftrace: perf-tools funccount • Built-in kernel tracing capabilities, added by Steven Rostedt and others since Linux 2.6.27 • Also see trace-cmd # ./funccount -i 1 'bio_*' Tracing "bio_*"... Ctrl-C to end. FUNC COUNT [...] bio_alloc_bioset 536 bio_endio 536 bio_free 536 bio_fs_destructor 536 bio_init 536 bio_integrity_enabled 536 bio_put 729 bio_add_page 1004
perf: Tracing Tracepoints http://www.brendangregg.com/perf.html https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page # perf stat -e block:block_rq_complete -a sleep 10 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 91 block:block_rq_complete ● perf was introduced earlier; it is also a powerful tracer # perf record -e block:block_rq_complete -a sleep 10 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.428 MB perf.data (~18687 samples) ] # perf script run 30339 [000] 2083345.722857: block:block_rq_complete: 202,1 W () 12986336 + 8 [0] run 30339 [000] 2083345.723180: block:block_rq_complete: 202,1 W () 12986528 + 8 [0] swapper 0 [000] 2083345.723489: block:block_rq_complete: 202,1 W () 12986496 + 8 [0] swapper 0 [000] 2083346.745840: block:block_rq_complete: 202,1 WS () 1052984 + 144 [0] supervise 30342 [000] 2083346.746571: block:block_rq_complete: 202,1 WS () 1053128 + 8 [0] [...] In-kernel counts (efficient) Dump & post-process
BCC/BPF: ext4slower • ext4 operations slower than the threshold: • Better indicator of application pain than disk I/O • Measures & filters in-kernel for efficiency using BPF # ./ext4slower 1 Tracing ext4 operations slower than 1 ms TIME COMM PID T BYTES OFF_KB LAT(ms) FILENAME 06:49:17 bash 3616 R 128 0 7.75 cksum 06:49:17 cksum 3616 R 39552 0 1.34 [ 06:49:17 cksum 3616 R 96 0 5.36 2to3-2.7 06:49:17 cksum 3616 R 96 0 14.94 2to3-3.4 06:49:17 cksum 3616 R 10320 0 6.82 411toppm 06:49:17 cksum 3616 R 65536 0 4.01 a2p 06:49:17 cksum 3616 R 55400 0 8.77 ab 06:49:17 cksum 3616 R 36792 0 16.34 aclocal-1.14 […] https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
bpftrace: one-liners • Block I/O (disk) events by type; by size & comm: # bpftrace -e 't:block:block_rq_issue { @[args->rwbs] = count(); }' Attaching 1 probe... ^C @[WS]: 2 @[RM]: 12 @[RA]: 1609 @[R]: 86421 # bpftrace -e 't:block:block_rq_issue { @bytes[comm] = hist(args->bytes); }' Attaching 1 probe... ^C @bytes[dmcrypt_write]: [4K, 8K) 68 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@| [8K, 16K) 35 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | [16K, 32K) 4 |@@@ | [32K, 64K) 1 | | [64K, 128K) 2 |@ | [...] https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace
BPF Perf Tools (2019) BCC & bpftrace repos contain many of these. The book has them all.
Off-CPU Analysis • Explain all blocking events. High-overhead: needs BPF. file read from disk directory read from disk pipe write path read from disk fstat from disk
6. Tuning
• CPU schedtool –B PID disable Ubuntu apport (crash reporter) upgrade to Bionic (scheduling improvements) • Virtual Memory vm.swappiness = 0 # from 60 • Memory echo madvise > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled kernel.numa_balancing = 0 • File System vm.dirty_ratio = 80 # from 40 vm.dirty_background_ratio = 5 # from 10 vm.dirty_expire_centisecs = 12000 # from 3000 mount -o defaults,noatime,discard,nobarrier … • Storage I/O /sys/block/*/queue/rq_affinity 1 # or 2 /sys/block/*/queue/scheduler kyber /sys/block/*/queue/nr_requests 256 /sys/block/*/queue/read_ahead_kb 128 mdadm –chunk=64 … Ubuntu Bionic Tuning: Sep 2020 (1/2)
Ubuntu Bionic Tuning: Sep 2020 (2/2) • Networking net.core.default_qdisc = fq net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 5000 # may update to 1000 net.core.rmem_max = 16777216 net.core.somaxconn = 1024 # may update to 4096 net.core.wmem_max = 16777216 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 10240 65535 net.ipv4.tcp_abort_on_overflow = 1 # maybe net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control = bbr net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 8192 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 12582912 16777216 # or 8388608 ... net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle = 0 net.ipv4.tcp_syn_retries = 2 net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse = 1 net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 12582912 16777216 # or 8388608 ... • Hypervisor echo tsc > /sys/devices/…/current_clocksource Plus use AWS Nitro • Other net.core.bpf_jit_enable = 1 sysctl -w kernel.perf_event_max_stack=1000
Takeaways Systems Performance is: Observability, Methodologies, Benchmarking, Profiling, Tracing, Tuning Print out for your office wall: 1. uptime 2. dmesg -T | tail 3. vmstat 1 4. mpstat -P ALL 1 5. pidstat 1 6. iostat -xz 1 7. free -m 8. sar -n DEV 1 9. sar -n TCP,ETCP 1 10. top
Links Netflix Tech Blog on Linux: ● http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/linux-performance-analysis-in-60s.html ● http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/08/netflix-at-velocity-2015-linux.html Linux Performance: ● http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html Linux perf: ● https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page ● http://www.brendangregg.com/perf.html Linux ftrace: ● https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt ● https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools Linux BPF: ● http://www.brendangregg.com/ebpf.html ● http://www.brendangregg.com/bpf-performance-tools-book.html ● https://github.com/iovisor/bcc ● https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace Methodologies: ● http://www.brendangregg.com/USEmethod/use-linux.html ● http://www.brendangregg.com/activebenchmarking.html Flame Graphs & FlameScope: ● http://www.brendangregg.com/FlameGraphs/cpuflamegraphs.html ● http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2927301 ● https://github.com/Netflix/flamescope MSRs and PMCs ● https://github.com/brendangregg/msr-cloud-tools ● https://github.com/brendangregg/pmc-cloud-tools
Thanks • Q&A in #qa-brendan • http://slideshare.net/brendangregg • http://www.brendangregg.com • bgregg@netflix.com • @brendangregg Nov/Dec 2020 Auckland, Perth, Singapore, Hong Kong

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YOW2020 Linux Systems Performance

  • 1. Linux Systems Performance Brendan Gregg Senior Performance Engineer Sep, 2020 Auckland, Perth, Singapore, Hong Kong
  • 2. What I’m currently working on
  • 4. Application Request Time On-CPU Time Off-CPU Time CPU Flame Graph Off-CPU Flame Graph
  • 5. 7fffc102ca03 nf_conntrack_in ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fffc10d341c ipv4_conntrack_local ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9deb09d8 nf_hook_slow ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9debe6c7 __ip_local_out ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9debe74c ip_local_out ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9debeab0 ip_queue_xmit ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9ded8e02 __tcp_transmit_skb ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9deda3f4 tcp_write_xmit ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9dedb215 __tcp_push_pending_frames ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9dec684b tcp_push ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9deca337 tcp_sendmsg_locked ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9decae5c tcp_sendmsg ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9defa8ee inet_sendmsg ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9de4a41e sock_sendmsg ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9de4a9af SYSC_sendto ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9de4b49e sys_sendto ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9d605bb3 do_syscall_64 ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7fff9e002081 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe ([kernel.kallsyms]) 119ae __libc_send (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.27.so) X Off-CPU stacks often end abruptly in libc
  • 6. More than one way to walk a stack Frame pointers Last branch record (LBR) Branch trace store (BTS) DWARF ORC Application exception handler ... We’re currently rolling out our own build of libc with frame pointers (-fno-omit-frame-pointer)
  • 7. Systems Performance in 45 mins • This is slides + discussion • For more detail and stand-alone texts:
  • 8. Agenda 1. Observability 2. Methodologies 3. Benchmarking 4. Profiling 5. Tracing 6. Tuning
  • 11. How do you measure these?
  • 13. Why Learn Tools? • Most analysis at Netflix is via GUIs • Benefits of command-line tools: – Helps you understand GUIs: they show the same metrics – Often documented, unlike GUI metrics – Often have useful options not exposed in GUIs • Installing essential tools (something like): $ sudo apt-get install sysstat bcc-tools bpftrace linux-tools-common linux-tools-$(uname -r) iproute2 msr-tools $ git clone https://github.com/brendangregg/msr-cloud-tools $ git clone https://github.com/brendangregg/bpf-perf-tools-book These are crisis tools and should be installed by default In a performance meltdown you may be unable to install them
  • 14. uptime • One way to print load averages: • A measure of resource demand: CPUs + disks – Includes TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state to show all demand types – You can use BPF & off-CPU flame graphs to explain this state: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-08-08/linux-load-averages.html – PSI in Linux 4.20 shows CPU, I/O, and memory loads • Exponentially-damped moving averages – With time constants of 1, 5, and 15 minutes. See historic trend. • Load > # of CPUs, may mean CPU saturation $ uptime 07:42:06 up 8:16, 1 user, load average: 2.27, 2.84, 2.91 Don’t spend more than 5 seconds studying these
  • 15. top • System and per-process interval summary: • %CPU is summed across all CPUs • Can miss short-lived processes (atop won’t) $ top - 18:50:26 up 7:43, 1 user, load average: 4.11, 4.91, 5.22 Tasks: 209 total, 1 running, 206 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie Cpu(s): 47.1%us, 4.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 48.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.2%st Mem: 70197156k total, 44831072k used, 25366084k free, 36360k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 11873356k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 5738 apiprod 20 0 62.6g 29g 352m S 417 44.2 2144:15 java 1386 apiprod 20 0 17452 1388 964 R 0 0.0 0:00.02 top 1 root 20 0 24340 2272 1340 S 0 0.0 0:01.51 init 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd […]
  • 16. htop • Pros: configurable. Cons: misleading colors. • dstat is similar, and now dead (May 2019); see pcp-dstat $ htop 1 [||||||||||70.0%] 13 [||||||||||70.6%] 25 [||||||||||69.7%] 37 [||||||||||66.6%] 2 [||||||||||68.7%] 14 [||||||||||69.4%] 26 [||||||||||67.7%] 38 [||||||||||66.0%] 3 [||||||||||68.2%] 15 [||||||||||68.5%] 27 [||||||||||68.8%] 39 [||||||||||73.3%] 4 [||||||||||69.3%] 16 [||||||||||69.2%] 28 [||||||||||67.6%] 40 [||||||||||67.0%] 5 [||||||||||68.0%] 17 [||||||||||67.6%] 29 [||||||||||70.1%] 41 [||||||||||66.5%] […] Mem[||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||176G/187G] Tasks: 80, 3206 thr; 43 running Swp[ 0K/0K] Load average: 36.95 37.19 38.29 Uptime: 01:39:36 PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command 4067 www-data 20 0 202G 173G 55392 S 3359 93.0 48h51:30 /apps/java/bin/java -Dnop -Djdk.map 6817 www-data 20 0 202G 173G 55392 R 56.9 93.0 48:37.89 /apps/java/bin/java -Dnop -Djdk.map 6826 www-data 20 0 202G 173G 55392 R 25.7 93.0 22:26.90 /apps/java/bin/java -Dnop -Djdk.map 6721 www-data 20 0 202G 173G 55392 S 25.0 93.0 22:05.51 /apps/java/bin/java -Dnop -Djdk.map 6616 www-data 20 0 202G 173G 55392 S 13.6 93.0 11:15.51 /apps/java/bin/java -Dnop -Djdk.map […] F1Help F2Setup F3SearchF4FilterF5Tree F6SortByF7Nice -F8Nice +F9Kill F10Quit
  • 17. vmstat • Virtual memory statistics and more: • USAGE: vmstat [interval [count]] • First output line has some summary since boot values • High level CPU summary – “r” is runnable tasks $ vmstat –Sm 1 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 8 0 0 1620 149 552 0 0 1 179 77 12 25 34 0 0 7 0 0 1598 149 552 0 0 0 0 205 186 46 13 0 0 8 0 0 1617 149 552 0 0 0 8 210 435 39 21 0 0 8 0 0 1589 149 552 0 0 0 0 218 219 42 17 0 0 […]
  • 18. iostat • Block I/O (disk) stats. 1st output is since boot. $ iostat -xz 1 Linux 5.0.21 (c099.xxxx) 06/24/19 _x86_64_ (32 CPU) [...] Device r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s rrqm/s wrqm/s %rrqm %wrqm ... sda 0.01 0.00 0.16 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 /... nvme3n1 19528.04 20.39 293152.56 14758.05 0.00 4.72 0.00 18.81 ... nvme1n1 18513.51 17.83 286402.15 13089.56 0.00 4.05 0.00 18.52 /... nvme0n1 16560.88 19.70 258184.52 14218.55 0.00 4.78 0.00 19.51 ... ... r_await w_await aqu-sz rareq-sz wareq-sz svctm %util .../ 1.90 0.00 0.00 17.01 0.00 1.13 0.00 ... 0.13 53.56 1.05 15.01 723.80 0.02 47.29 .../ 0.13 49.26 0.85 15.47 734.21 0.03 48.09 ... 0.13 50.46 0.96 15.59 721.65 0.03 46.64 Workload Resulting Performance Very useful set of stats
  • 19. free • Main memory usage: • Recently added “available” column – buff/cache: block device I/O cache + virtual page cache – available: memory likely available to apps – free: completely unused memory $ free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 23850 18248 592 3776 5008 1432 Swap: 31699 2021 29678
  • 20. strace • System call tracer: • Translates syscall arguments • Not all kernel requests (e.g., page faults) • Currently has massive overhead (ptrace based) – Can slow the target by > 100x. Skews measured time (-ttt, -T). – http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-11/strace-wow-much-syscall.html • perf trace will replace it: uses a ring buffer & BPF $ strace –tttT –p 313 1408393285.779746 getgroups(0, NULL) = 1 <0.000016> 1408393285.779873 getgroups(1, [0]) = 1 <0.000015> 1408393285.780797 close(3) = 0 <0.000016> 1408393285.781338 write(1, "wow much syscalln", 17wow much syscall ) = 17 <0.000048>
  • 21. tcpdump • Sniff network packets for post analysis: • Study packet sequences with timestamps (us) • CPU overhead optimized (socket ring buffers), but can still be significant. Use BPF in-kernel summaries instead. $ tcpdump -i eth0 -w /tmp/out.tcpdump tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes ^C7985 packets captured 8996 packets received by filter 1010 packets dropped by kernel # tcpdump -nr /tmp/out.tcpdump | head reading from file /tmp/out.tcpdump, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet) 20:41:05.038437 IP 10.44.107.151.22 > 10.53.237.72.46425: Flags [P.], seq 18... 20:41:05.038533 IP 10.44.107.151.22 > 10.53.237.72.46425: Flags [P.], seq 48... 20:41:05.038584 IP 10.44.107.151.22 > 10.53.237.72.46425: Flags [P.], seq 96... […]
  • 22. nstat • Replacement for netstat from iproute2 • Various network protocol statistics: – -s won’t reset counters, otherwise intervals can be examined – -d for daemon mode • Linux keeps adding more counters $ nstat -s #kernel IpInReceives 31109659 0.0 IpInDelivers 31109371 0.0 IpOutRequests 33209552 0.0 [...] TcpActiveOpens 508924 0.0 TcpPassiveOpens 388584 0.0 TcpAttemptFails 933 0.0 TcpEstabResets 1545 0.0 TcpInSegs 31099176 0.0 TcpOutSegs 56254112 0.0 TcpRetransSegs 3762 0.0 TcpOutRsts 3183 0.0 [...]
  • 23. slabtop • Kernel slab allocator memory usage: $ slabtop Active / Total Objects (% used) : 4692768 / 4751161 (98.8%) Active / Total Slabs (% used) : 129083 / 129083 (100.0%) Active / Total Caches (% used) : 71 / 109 (65.1%) Active / Total Size (% used) : 729966.22K / 738277.47K (98.9%) Minimum / Average / Maximum Object : 0.01K / 0.16K / 8.00K OBJS ACTIVE USE OBJ SIZE SLABS OBJ/SLAB CACHE SIZE NAME 3565575 3565575 100% 0.10K 91425 39 365700K buffer_head 314916 314066 99% 0.19K 14996 21 59984K dentry 184192 183751 99% 0.06K 2878 64 11512K kmalloc-64 138618 138618 100% 0.94K 4077 34 130464K xfs_inode 138602 138602 100% 0.21K 3746 37 29968K xfs_ili 102116 99012 96% 0.55K 3647 28 58352K radix_tree_node 97482 49093 50% 0.09K 2321 42 9284K kmalloc-96 22695 20777 91% 0.05K 267 85 1068K shared_policy_node 21312 21312 100% 0.86K 576 37 18432K ext4_inode_cache 16288 14601 89% 0.25K 509 32 4072K kmalloc-256 […]
  • 24. pcstat • Show page cache residency by file: • Uses mincore(2) syscall. Used for database perf analysis. # ./pcstat data0* |----------+----------------+------------+-----------+---------| | Name | Size | Pages | Cached | Percent | |----------+----------------+------------+-----------+---------| | data00 | 104857600 | 25600 | 25600 | 100.000 | | data01 | 104857600 | 25600 | 25600 | 100.000 | | data02 | 104857600 | 25600 | 4080 | 015.938 | | data03 | 104857600 | 25600 | 25600 | 100.000 | | data04 | 104857600 | 25600 | 16010 | 062.539 | | data05 | 104857600 | 25600 | 0 | 000.000 | |----------+----------------+------------+-----------+---------|
  • 25. docker stats • Soft limits (cgroups) by container: • Stats are in /sys/fs/cgroups • CPU shares and bursting breaks monitoring assumptions # docker stats CONTAINER CPU % MEM USAGE / LIMIT MEM % NET I/O BLOCK I/O PIDS 353426a09db1 526.81% 4.061 GiB / 8.5 GiB 47.78% 0 B / 0 B 2.818 MB / 0 B 247 6bf166a66e08 303.82% 3.448 GiB / 8.5 GiB 40.57% 0 B / 0 B 2.032 MB / 0 B 267 58dcf8aed0a7 41.01% 1.322 GiB / 2.5 GiB 52.89% 0 B / 0 B 0 B / 0 B 229 61061566ffe5 85.92% 220.9 MiB / 3.023 GiB 7.14% 0 B / 0 B 43.4 MB / 0 B 61 bdc721460293 2.69% 1.204 GiB / 3.906 GiB 30.82% 0 B / 0 B 4.35 MB / 0 B 66 6c80ed61ae63 477.45% 557.7 MiB / 8 GiB 6.81% 0 B / 0 B 9.257 MB / 0 B 19 337292fb5b64 89.05% 766.2 MiB / 8 GiB 9.35% 0 B / 0 B 5.493 MB / 0 B 19 b652ede9a605 173.50% 689.2 MiB / 8 GiB 8.41% 0 B / 0 B 6.48 MB / 0 B 19 d7cd2599291f 504.28% 673.2 MiB / 8 GiB 8.22% 0 B / 0 B 12.58 MB / 0 B 19 05bf9f3e0d13 314.46% 711.6 MiB / 8 GiB 8.69% 0 B / 0 B 7.942 MB / 0 B 19 09082f005755 142.04% 693.9 MiB / 8 GiB 8.47% 0 B / 0 B 8.081 MB / 0 B 19 [...]
  • 26. showboost • Determine current CPU clock rate • Uses MSRs. Can also use PMCs for this. • Also see turbostat. # showboost Base CPU MHz : 2500 Set CPU MHz : 2500 Turbo MHz(s) : 3100 3200 3300 3500 Turbo Ratios : 124% 128% 132% 140% CPU 0 summary every 1 seconds... TIME C0_MCYC C0_ACYC UTIL RATIO MHz 23:39:07 1618910294 89419923 64% 5% 138 23:39:08 1774059258 97132588 70% 5% 136 23:39:09 2476365498 130869241 99% 5% 132 ^C https://github.com/brendangregg/msr-cloud-tools
  • 27. pmcarch • • • Measures instructions-per-cycle (IPC) and other metrics serverA# ./pmcarch -p 4093 10 K_CYCLES K_INSTR IPC BR_RETIRED BR_MISPRED BMR% LLCREF LLCMISS LLC% 982412660 575706336 0.59 126424862460 2416880487 1.91 15724006692 10872315070 30.86 999621309 555043627 0.56 120449284756 2317302514 1.92 15378257714 11121882510 27.68 991146940 558145849 0.56 126350181501 2530383860 2.00 15965082710 11464682655 28.19 996314688 562276830 0.56 122215605985 2348638980 1.92 15558286345 10835594199 30.35 979890037 560268707 0.57 125609807909 2386085660 1.90 15828820588 11038597030 30.26 ^C serverB# ./pmcarch -p 1928219 10 K_CYCLES K_INSTR IPC BR_RETIRED BR_MISPRED BMR% LLCREF LLCMISS LLC% 147523816 222396364 1.51 46053921119 641813770 1.39 8880477235 968809014 89.09 156634810 229801807 1.47 48236123575 653064504 1.35 9186609260 1183858023 87.11 152783226 237001219 1.55 49344315621 692819230 1.40 9314992450 879494418 90.56 140787179 213570329 1.52 44518363978 631588112 1.42 8675999448 712318917 91.79 136822760 219706637 1.61 45129020910 651436401 1.44 8689831639 617678747 92.89 https://github.com/brendangregg/pmc-cloud-tools
  • 28. cpuhot • Various thermal info is available in MSRs # dmesg […] [1914678.201791] CPU6: Package temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled ... [1914678.206747] CPU5: Core temperature/speed normal [1914678.206748] CPU6: Package temperature/speed normal […] https://github.com/brendangregg/msr-cloud-tools # ./cpuhot - CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6 CPU7 CPU8 CPU9 CPU10 CPU11 CPU12 CPU13 CPU14 CPU15 CPU16 PROCHOT 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 95 Celsius 77 75 76 73 76 77 75 72 76 72 75 77 76 72 76 75 Flags 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0
  • 29. Also: Static Performance Tuning Tools
  • 30. Where do you start...and stop? Workload Observability Static Configuration
  • 32. Anti-Methodologies • The lack of a deliberate methodology… • Street Light Anti-Method • Drunk Man Anti-Method
  • 33. Linux Perf Analysis in 60s http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/linux-performance-analysis-in-60s.html 1. uptime 2. dmesg -T | tail 3. vmstat 1 4. mpstat -P ALL 1 5. pidstat 1 6. iostat -xz 1 7. free -m 8. sar -n DEV 1 9. sar -n TCP,ETCP 1 10. top load averages kernel errors overall stats by time CPU balance process usage disk I/O memory usage network I/O TCP stats check overview
  • 34. USE Method For every resource, check: 1. Utilization 2. Saturation 3. Errors For example, CPUs: - Utilization: time busy - Saturation: run queue length or latency - Errors: ECC errors, etc. Can be applied to hardware and software (cgroups) Resource Utilization (%) Saturation Errors X Start with the questions, then find the tools
  • 35. Workload Characterization Analyze workload characteristics, not resulting performance For example, CPUs: 1. Who: which PIDs, programs, users 2. Why: code paths, context 3. What: CPU instructions, cycles 4. How: changing over time TargetWorkload
  • 36. Other Methodologies • Resource analysis • Workload analysis • Drill-down analysis • Off-CPU analysis • Static performance tuning • Performance mantras • Scientific method • 5 whys • … All methodologies summarized: http://www.brendangregg.com/methodology.html
  • 38. Benchmarking • An experimental analysis activity – Try observational analysis first; benchmarks can perturb • My favorite tools: – fio, lmbench, sysperf, iperf, netperf • Benchmarking is error prone – ~100% of benchmarks are wrong – You benchmark A, but actually measure B, and conclude you measured C caution: benchmarking
  • 39. Solution: Active Benchmarking • Root cause analysis while the benchmark runs • For any given benchmark, ask: why not 10x? • This takes time, but uncovers most mistakes accurate benchmarking takes serious effort
  • 41. Profiling Can you do this? “As an experiment to investigate the performance of the resulting TCP/IP implementation ... the 11/750 is CPU saturated, but the 11/780 has about 30% idle time. The time spent in the system processing the data is spread out among handling for the Ethernet (20%), IP packet processing (10%), TCP processing (30%), checksumming (25%), and user system call handling (15%), with no single part of the handling dominating the time in the system.” – Bill Joy, 1981, TCP-IP Digest, Vol 1 #6 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/museum/tcp-ip-digest/tcp-ip-digest.v1n6.1
  • 42. perf: CPU profiling • Sampling full stack traces at 99 Hertz, for 30 secs: # perf record -F 99 -ag -- sleep 30 [ perf record: Woken up 9 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 2.745 MB perf.data (~119930 samples) ] # perf report -n --stdio 1.40% 162 java [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock | --- _raw_spin_lock | |--63.21%-- try_to_wake_up | | | |--63.91%-- default_wake_function | | | | | |--56.11%-- __wake_up_common | | | __wake_up_locked | | | ep_poll_callback | | | __wake_up_common | | | __wake_up_sync_key | | | | | | | |--59.19%-- sock_def_readable […78,000 lines truncated…]
  • 44. … as a Flame Graph
  • 45. Flame Graphs • Visualizes a collection of stack traces – x-axis: alphabetical stack sort, to maximize merging – y-axis: stack depth – color: random (default), or a dimension • Perl + SVG + JavaScript – https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph – Takes input from many different profilers – Multiple d3 versions are being developed • References: – http://www.brendangregg.com/FlameGraphs/cpuflamegraphs.html – http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2927301 – "The Flame Graph" CACM, June 2016 Instructions
  • 46. Linux CPU Flame Graphs Linux 2.6+, via perf: Linux 4.9+, via BPF: – Most efficient: no perf.data file, summarizes in-kernel git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph cd FlameGraph perf record -F 49 -a –g -- sleep 30 perf script --header > out.perf01 ./stackcollapse-perf.pl < out.perf01 |./flamegraph.pl > perf.svg git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iovisor/bcc ./bcc/tools/profile.py -dF 49 30 | ./FlameGraph/flamegraph.pl > perf.svg These files can be read using FlameScope
  • 49. perf: Counters • Performance Monitoring Counters (PMCs): • • Measure CPU operations, cycles, including stall cycles • PMCs only enabled for some cloud instance types $ perf list | grep –i hardware cpu-cycles OR cycles [Hardware event] stalled-cycles-frontend OR idle-cycles-frontend [Hardware event] stalled-cycles-backend OR idle-cycles-backend [Hardware event] instructions [Hardware event] […] L1-dcache-loads [Hardware cache event] L1-dcache-load-misses [Hardware cache event] […] rNNN (see 'perf list --help' on how to encode it) [Raw hardware event … mem:<addr>[:access] [Hardware breakpoint] My front-ends, incl. pmcarch: https://github.com/brendangregg/pmc-cloud-tools
  • 52. Tracing Stack tracepoints, kprobes, uprobes Ftrace, perf_events, BPF perffront-end tools: tracing frameworks: back-end instrumentation: trace-cmd, perf-tools, bcc, bpftraceadd-on tools: in Linux BPF enables a new class of custom, efficient, and production safe performance analysis tools
  • 53. Ftrace: perf-tools funccount • Built-in kernel tracing capabilities, added by Steven Rostedt and others since Linux 2.6.27 • Also see trace-cmd # ./funccount -i 1 'bio_*' Tracing "bio_*"... Ctrl-C to end. FUNC COUNT [...] bio_alloc_bioset 536 bio_endio 536 bio_free 536 bio_fs_destructor 536 bio_init 536 bio_integrity_enabled 536 bio_put 729 bio_add_page 1004
  • 54. perf: Tracing Tracepoints http://www.brendangregg.com/perf.html https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page # perf stat -e block:block_rq_complete -a sleep 10 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 91 block:block_rq_complete ● perf was introduced earlier; it is also a powerful tracer # perf record -e block:block_rq_complete -a sleep 10 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.428 MB perf.data (~18687 samples) ] # perf script run 30339 [000] 2083345.722857: block:block_rq_complete: 202,1 W () 12986336 + 8 [0] run 30339 [000] 2083345.723180: block:block_rq_complete: 202,1 W () 12986528 + 8 [0] swapper 0 [000] 2083345.723489: block:block_rq_complete: 202,1 W () 12986496 + 8 [0] swapper 0 [000] 2083346.745840: block:block_rq_complete: 202,1 WS () 1052984 + 144 [0] supervise 30342 [000] 2083346.746571: block:block_rq_complete: 202,1 WS () 1053128 + 8 [0] [...] In-kernel counts (efficient) Dump & post-process
  • 55. BCC/BPF: ext4slower • ext4 operations slower than the threshold: • Better indicator of application pain than disk I/O • Measures & filters in-kernel for efficiency using BPF # ./ext4slower 1 Tracing ext4 operations slower than 1 ms TIME COMM PID T BYTES OFF_KB LAT(ms) FILENAME 06:49:17 bash 3616 R 128 0 7.75 cksum 06:49:17 cksum 3616 R 39552 0 1.34 [ 06:49:17 cksum 3616 R 96 0 5.36 2to3-2.7 06:49:17 cksum 3616 R 96 0 14.94 2to3-3.4 06:49:17 cksum 3616 R 10320 0 6.82 411toppm 06:49:17 cksum 3616 R 65536 0 4.01 a2p 06:49:17 cksum 3616 R 55400 0 8.77 ab 06:49:17 cksum 3616 R 36792 0 16.34 aclocal-1.14 […] https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
  • 56. bpftrace: one-liners • Block I/O (disk) events by type; by size & comm: # bpftrace -e 't:block:block_rq_issue { @[args->rwbs] = count(); }' Attaching 1 probe... ^C @[WS]: 2 @[RM]: 12 @[RA]: 1609 @[R]: 86421 # bpftrace -e 't:block:block_rq_issue { @bytes[comm] = hist(args->bytes); }' Attaching 1 probe... ^C @bytes[dmcrypt_write]: [4K, 8K) 68 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@| [8K, 16K) 35 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | [16K, 32K) 4 |@@@ | [32K, 64K) 1 | | [64K, 128K) 2 |@ | [...] https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace
  • 57. BPF Perf Tools (2019) BCC & bpftrace repos contain many of these. The book has them all.
  • 58. Off-CPU Analysis • Explain all blocking events. High-overhead: needs BPF. file read from disk directory read from disk pipe write path read from disk fstat from disk
  • 60. • CPU schedtool –B PID disable Ubuntu apport (crash reporter) upgrade to Bionic (scheduling improvements) • Virtual Memory vm.swappiness = 0 # from 60 • Memory echo madvise > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled kernel.numa_balancing = 0 • File System vm.dirty_ratio = 80 # from 40 vm.dirty_background_ratio = 5 # from 10 vm.dirty_expire_centisecs = 12000 # from 3000 mount -o defaults,noatime,discard,nobarrier … • Storage I/O /sys/block/*/queue/rq_affinity 1 # or 2 /sys/block/*/queue/scheduler kyber /sys/block/*/queue/nr_requests 256 /sys/block/*/queue/read_ahead_kb 128 mdadm –chunk=64 … Ubuntu Bionic Tuning: Sep 2020 (1/2)
  • 61. Ubuntu Bionic Tuning: Sep 2020 (2/2) • Networking net.core.default_qdisc = fq net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 5000 # may update to 1000 net.core.rmem_max = 16777216 net.core.somaxconn = 1024 # may update to 4096 net.core.wmem_max = 16777216 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 10240 65535 net.ipv4.tcp_abort_on_overflow = 1 # maybe net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control = bbr net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 8192 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 12582912 16777216 # or 8388608 ... net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle = 0 net.ipv4.tcp_syn_retries = 2 net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse = 1 net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 12582912 16777216 # or 8388608 ... • Hypervisor echo tsc > /sys/devices/…/current_clocksource Plus use AWS Nitro • Other net.core.bpf_jit_enable = 1 sysctl -w kernel.perf_event_max_stack=1000
  • 62. Takeaways Systems Performance is: Observability, Methodologies, Benchmarking, Profiling, Tracing, Tuning Print out for your office wall: 1. uptime 2. dmesg -T | tail 3. vmstat 1 4. mpstat -P ALL 1 5. pidstat 1 6. iostat -xz 1 7. free -m 8. sar -n DEV 1 9. sar -n TCP,ETCP 1 10. top
  • 63. Links Netflix Tech Blog on Linux: ● http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/linux-performance-analysis-in-60s.html ● http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/08/netflix-at-velocity-2015-linux.html Linux Performance: ● http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html Linux perf: ● https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page ● http://www.brendangregg.com/perf.html Linux ftrace: ● https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt ● https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools Linux BPF: ● http://www.brendangregg.com/ebpf.html ● http://www.brendangregg.com/bpf-performance-tools-book.html ● https://github.com/iovisor/bcc ● https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace Methodologies: ● http://www.brendangregg.com/USEmethod/use-linux.html ● http://www.brendangregg.com/activebenchmarking.html Flame Graphs & FlameScope: ● http://www.brendangregg.com/FlameGraphs/cpuflamegraphs.html ● http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2927301 ● https://github.com/Netflix/flamescope MSRs and PMCs ● https://github.com/brendangregg/msr-cloud-tools ● https://github.com/brendangregg/pmc-cloud-tools
  • 64. Thanks • Q&A in #qa-brendan • http://slideshare.net/brendangregg • http://www.brendangregg.com • [email protected] • @brendangregg Nov/Dec 2020 Auckland, Perth, Singapore, Hong Kong