=Comment: #0================================================= Emily J. Ratliff <ratliff.com> - 1. Feature Overview: Feature Id: [201590] a. Name of Feature: FCP - Performance Data collection (kernel) b. Feature Description The item comprises: a) facilities which provide performance relevant data (see below) at any time b) facilities which collect the data provided by a), then associate it with a time stamp and and store it for future processing - these facilities are configurable in regard of the type and amount of data collected for the purpose of reducing the amount of temporarily stored data. - when data is taken as samples, the sampling interval is configurable - collected data can be filtered by e.g masks for valid stack components (see below) before data is stored for further processing c) facilities which present the data stored by b) in a human readable way. d) Data presented shall contain enough information to make FCP performance data comparable with current capabilities of FICON data collections. Data collected comprises: a) Performance relevant data about stack components as Linux devices, SCSI LUNs and HBA and storage controller information b) Per stack component: current values of relevant measurements as throughput, utilization and other applicable measurements c) Statistical aggregations (min, max average, histogram) of data associated with I/O requests as size, latency per component and in total. 2. Feature Details: Sponsor: zSeries Architectures: s390x Arch Specificity: Both Affects Core Kernel: Yes Affects Kernel Modules: Yes Delivery Mechanism: Backport Category: Kernel Request Type: Kernel - Enhancement from Upstream d. Upstream Acceptance: Accepted Sponsor Priority 1 f. Severity: High IBM Confidential: no Code Contribution: IBM code g. Component Version Target: 2.6.28 3. Business Case This item will make possible to have a better understanding of the SCSI activities and performance of the customer system, being able afterward to better solve FCP issues regarding customer's SCSI workloads. 4. Primary contact at Red Hat: John Jarvis jjarvis 5. Primary contacts at Partner: Project Management Contact: Hans-Georg Markgraf, mgrf.com, Boeblingen 49-7031-16-3978 Technical contact(s): Gonzalo Muelas Serrano, gmuelas.com IBM Manager: Thomas Schwarz, t.schwarz.com
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Quality Engineering Management has reviewed and declined this request. You may appeal this decision by reopening this request.
(In reply to comment #5) > Quality Engineering Management has reviewed and declined this request. You may > appeal this decision by reopening this request. > Hello Red Hat QEM, we are still interested in this request. Could you please explain to IBM what came out of your review and which are the reasons (technical and/or business) to decline this request? Note that this feature is needed for: Red Hat Bugzilla - 475333 - IBM LTC Bug 50340 - [LTC 5.4 FEAT] FCP - Performance Data collection & analysis (userspace) [201591] Red Hat Bugzilla - 475548 - IBM LTC Bug 50351 - [LTC 5.4 FEAT] FCP - Performance data collection (blktrace) [201729] Red Hat Bugzilla - 475552 - IBM LTC Bug 50352 - [LTC 5.4 FEAT] FCP - Performance data reports [201730] You can find more information about the FCP - Performance Data collection features here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/development_documentation.html How to use FC-attached SCSI devices with Linux on System z - SC33-8413-01 Chapters 10 and 12. Thank you! Gonzalo Muelas Serrano.
Created attachment 329802 [details] linux-2.6.18-s390-zfcp-perfdata.patch
Posted to rhkernel on Feb 13. by Hans-Joachim Picht <hpicht>
Updating PM score.
Please do not forget to update documentation and/or release notes: Provides FCP performance data like, SCSI stack, SCSI LUNs, HBA, storage controller information... ??? More details under: ??? ???I/O tracing using blktrace???, ???Collecting FCP performance data with ziomon??? in latest version of How to use FC-attached SCSI devices with Linux on System z at: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/development_documentation.html Thank you!
This enhancement request was evaluated by the full Red Hat Enterprise Linux team for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux minor release. As a result of this evaluation, Red Hat has tentatively approved inclusion of this feature in the next Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update minor release. While it is a goal to include this enhancement in the next minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the enhancement is not yet committed for inclusion in the next minor release pending the next phase of actual code integration and successful Red Hat and partner testing.
in kernel-2.6.18-138.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5 Please do NOT transition this bugzilla state to VERIFIED until our QE team has sent specific instructions indicating when to do so. However feel free to provide a comment indicating that this fix has been verified.
moving back to POST to pickup the extra patch bit.
really going to do it this time
in kernel-2.6.18-146.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5 Please do NOT transition this bugzilla state to VERIFIED until our QE team has sent specific instructions indicating when to do so. However feel free to provide a comment indicating that this fix has been verified.
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Release note added. If any revisions are required, please set the "requires_release_notes" flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: This feature allows for the collection of FCP performance data on Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances on the IBM System z platform. Such metrics include: - Performance relevant data about stack components as Linux devices, SCSI LUNs and HBA and storage controller information. - Per stack component: current values of relevant measurements as throughput, utilization and other applicable measurements . - Statistical aggregations (min, max average, histogram) of data associated with I/O requests as size, latency per component and in total.
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Release note updated. If any revisions are required, please set the "requires_release_notes" flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. Diffed Contents: @@ -1,10 +1,7 @@ -This feature allows for the collection of FCP performance data on Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances on the IBM System z platform. +Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) performance data can be measured on Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances on the IBM System z platform. Metrics that are collected and reported on include: -Such metrics include: -- Performance relevant data about stack components as Linux devices, SCSI LUNs and HBA and storage controller information. +* Performance relevant data on stack components such as Linux devices, Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) and Host Bus Adapter (HBA) storage controller information. -- Per stack component: current values of relevant measurements as throughput, utilization and -other applicable measurements . +* Per stack component: current values of relevant measurements as throughput, utilization and other applicable measurements. -- Statistical aggregations (min, max average, histogram) of data associated with I/O requests as +* Statistical aggregations (minimum, maximum, averages and histogram) of data associated with I/O requests including size, latency per component and totals.-size, latency per component and in total.
Verified the patches to this bug are included in kernel-2.6.18-160.el5
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------- Comment From mgrf.com 2009-08-03 12:34 EDT------- verified on RHEL 5.4 snapshots - closing feature request
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1243.html