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A storage performance analysis tool is crucial to finding performance bottlenecks in I/O storage systems and developing efficient storage system architectures or algorithms. This work is based on an integrated performance analysis tool for Linux file systems. The tool provides actual time information for Linux file system functions. In contrast to other existing tools, the tool provides a filtering mechanism, a graphical interface, and system-level analysis information without a heavy load of measurement. This paper describes a host program implementation for the performance analysis tool. It may be used by Linux developers or end-users for analyzing file system layers or measuring software performance to find bottlenecks in Linux file systems.
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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (2015R1A5A7036384). This work was supported by Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Research Fund of 2017.
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Cho, SY. (2018). A Host Program Implementation for Linux File System Tracing Method Using the Kprobes Linux Dynamic Instrumentation System. In: Ntalianis, K., Croitoru, A. (eds) Applied Physics, System Science and Computers. APSAC 2017. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 428. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53934-8_29
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