PERF-IOSTAT(1) perf Manual PERF-IOSTAT(1) (NAME) perf-iostat - I/O (SYNOPSIS) perf iostat list perf iostat -- [] (DESCRIPTION) I/O (root port) PCIe : o Inbound Read - I/O (MB) o Inbound Write - I/O (MB) o Outbound Read - (CPU) I/O (MB) o Outbound Write - (CPU) I/O (MB) (OPTIONS) ... . list PCIe. . . (EXAMPLES) 1. PCIe ( 2-S): $ 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. PCIe: $ 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 3. PCIe: $ perf iostat 0000:17,0:3a -- 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, 197.08 s, 1.9 GB/s Performance counter stats for 'system wide': port Inbound Read(MB) Inbound Write(MB) Outbound Read(MB) Outbound Write(MB) 0000:17 358559 44 0 22 0000:3a 3 2 0 0 197.081983474 seconds time elapsed (SEE ALSO) perf-stat(1) perf 09/04/2026 PERF-IOSTAT(1)