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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2018-10-26 15:06:08 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-10-26 16:26:32 -0700
commitb1d29ba82cf2bc784f4c963ddd6a2cf29e229b33 (patch)
tree4fc15315a4c1f8c1d1e99968a3077dcf1ac45407 /kernel/delayacct.c
parent1899ad18c6072d689896badafb81267b0a1092a4 (diff)
downloadlinux-b1d29ba82cf2bc784f4c963ddd6a2cf29e229b33.tar.gz
delayacct: track delays from thrashing cache pages
Delay accounting already measures the time a task spends in direct reclaim
and waiting for swapin, but in low memory situations tasks spend can spend
a significant amount of their time waiting on thrashing page cache.  This
isn't tracked right now.

To know the full impact of memory contention on an individual task,
measure the delay when waiting for a recently evicted active cache page to
read back into memory.

Also update tools/accounting/getdelays.c:

     [hannes@computer accounting]$ sudo ./getdelays -d -p 1
     print delayacct stats ON
     PID     1

     CPU             count     real total  virtual total    delay total  delay average
                     50318      745000000      847346785      400533713          0.008ms
     IO              count    delay total  delay average
                       435      122601218              0ms
     SWAP            count    delay total  delay average
                         0              0              0ms
     RECLAIM         count    delay total  delay average
                         0              0              0ms
     THRASHING       count    delay total  delay average
                        19       12621439              0ms

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828172258.3185-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com>
Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@fb.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@sony.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/delayacct.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/delayacct.c15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/delayacct.c b/kernel/delayacct.c
index ca8ac2824f0b..2a12b988c717 100644
--- a/kernel/delayacct.c
+++ b/kernel/delayacct.c
@@ -135,9 +135,12 @@ int __delayacct_add_tsk(struct taskstats *d, struct task_struct *tsk)
 	d->swapin_delay_total = (tmp < d->swapin_delay_total) ? 0 : tmp;
 	tmp = d->freepages_delay_total + tsk->delays->freepages_delay;
 	d->freepages_delay_total = (tmp < d->freepages_delay_total) ? 0 : tmp;
+	tmp = d->thrashing_delay_total + tsk->delays->thrashing_delay;
+	d->thrashing_delay_total = (tmp < d->thrashing_delay_total) ? 0 : tmp;
 	d->blkio_count += tsk->delays->blkio_count;
 	d->swapin_count += tsk->delays->swapin_count;
 	d->freepages_count += tsk->delays->freepages_count;
+	d->thrashing_count += tsk->delays->thrashing_count;
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tsk->delays->lock, flags);
 
 	return 0;
@@ -169,3 +172,15 @@ void __delayacct_freepages_end(void)
 		&current->delays->freepages_count);
 }
 
+void __delayacct_thrashing_start(void)
+{
+	current->delays->thrashing_start = ktime_get_ns();
+}
+
+void __delayacct_thrashing_end(void)
+{
+	delayacct_end(&current->delays->lock,
+		      &current->delays->thrashing_start,
+		      &current->delays->thrashing_delay,
+		      &current->delays->thrashing_count);
+}