tools/perf/Documentation/perf-iostat.txt
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-iostat.txt
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-iostat.txt- Extension
.txt- Size
- 2941 bytes
- Lines
- 89
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- tools
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: documentation
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
Dependency Surface
- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
perf-iostat(1)
===============
NAME
----
perf-iostat - Show I/O performance metrics
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'perf iostat' list
'perf iostat' <ports> \-- <command> [<options>]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Mode is intended to provide four I/O performance metrics per each PCIe root port:
- Inbound Read - I/O devices below root port read from the host memory, in MB
- Inbound Write - I/O devices below root port write to the host memory, in MB
- Outbound Read - CPU reads from I/O devices below root port, in MB
- Outbound Write - CPU writes to I/O devices below root port, in MB
OPTIONS
-------
<command>...::
Any command you can specify in a shell.
list::
List all PCIe root ports.
<ports>::
Select the root ports for monitoring. Comma-separated list is supported.
EXAMPLES
--------
1. List all PCIe root ports (example for 2-S platform):
$ perf iostat list
S0-uncore_iio_0<0000:00>
S1-uncore_iio_0<0000:80>
S0-uncore_iio_1<0000:17>
S1-uncore_iio_1<0000:85>
S0-uncore_iio_2<0000:3a>
S1-uncore_iio_2<0000:ae>
S0-uncore_iio_3<0000:5d>
S1-uncore_iio_3<0000:d7>
2. Collect metrics for all PCIe root ports:
$ perf iostat -- dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=1M oflag=direct
357708+0 records in
357707+0 records out
375083606016 bytes (375 GB, 349 GiB) copied, 215.974 s, 1.7 GB/s
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
port Inbound Read(MB) Inbound Write(MB) Outbound Read(MB) Outbound Write(MB)
0000:00 1 0 2 3
0000:80 0 0 0 0
0000:17 352552 43 0 21
0000:85 0 0 0 0
0000:3a 3 0 0 0
0000:ae 0 0 0 0
0000:5d 0 0 0 0
0000:d7 0 0 0 0
Annotation
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / tools.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.