zfsonlinux/zfs — pull request #1584 by prakashsurya (2013-07-10 23:19:55+00:00)
Title: Add new kstat for monitoring time in dmu_tx_assign

This change adds a new kstat to gain some visibility into the amount of
time spent in each call to dmu_tx_assign. A histogram is exported via
a new dmu_tx_assign_histogram-$POOLNAME file. The information contained
in this histogram is the frequency dmu_tx_assign took to complete given
an interval range. For example, given the below histogram file:

$ cat /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/dmu_tx_assign_histogram-tank
12 1 0x01 32 1536 19792068076691 20516481514522
name type data
1 us 4 859
2 us 4 252
4 us 4 171
8 us 4 2
16 us 4 0
32 us 4 2
64 us 4 0
128 us 4 0
256 us 4 0
512 us 4 0
1024 us 4 0
2048 us 4 0
4096 us 4 0
8192 us 4 0
16384 us 4 0
32768 us 4 1
65536 us 4 1
131072 us 4 1
262144 us 4 4
524288 us 4 0
1048576 us 4 0
2097152 us 4 0
4194304 us 4 0
8388608 us 4 0
16777216 us 4 0
33554432 us 4 0
67108864 us 4 0
134217728 us 4 0
268435456 us 4 0
536870912 us 4 0
1073741824 us 4 0
2147483648 us 4 0

one can see most calls to dmu_tx_assign completed in 32us or less, but a
few outliers did not. Specifically, 4 of the calls took between 262144us
and 131072us. This information is difficult, if not impossible, to gather
without this change.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya