blktrace: Jens Axboe (jens.axboe@oracle.com) User Guide: Alan D. Brunelle (Alan.Brunelle@hp.com) 18 February 2007 Introduction blktrace is a block layer IO tracing mechanism which provides detailed information about request queue operations up to user space. There are three major components that are provided: Kernel patch A patch to the Linux kernel which includes the kernel event logging interfac