sched: Add a tracepoint to track rq->nr_running
authorPhil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Mon, 29 Jun 2020 19:23:03 +0000 (15:23 -0400)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Wed, 8 Jul 2020 09:39:02 +0000 (11:39 +0200)
commit9d246053a69196c7c27068870e9b4b66ac536f68
tree25cd59b9266c05a1bd7aab1792d084860f2965f6
parent07bbecb3410617816a99e76a2df7576507a0c8ad
sched: Add a tracepoint to track rq->nr_running

Add a bare tracepoint trace_sched_update_nr_running_tp which tracks
->nr_running CPU's rq. This is used to accurately trace this data and
provide a visualization of scheduler imbalances in, for example, the
form of a heat map.  The tracepoint is accessed by loading an external
kernel module. An example module (forked from Qais' module and including
the pelt related tracepoints) can be found at:

  https://github.com/auldp/tracepoints-helpers.git

A script to turn the trace-cmd report output into a heatmap plot can be
found at:

  https://github.com/jirvoz/plot-nr-running

The tracepoints are added to add_nr_running() and sub_nr_running() which
are in kernel/sched/sched.h. In order to avoid CREATE_TRACE_POINTS in
the header a wrapper call is used and the trace/events/sched.h include
is moved before sched.h in kernel/sched/core.

Signed-off-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200629192303.GC120228@lorien.usersys.redhat.com
include/linux/sched.h
include/trace/events/sched.h
kernel/sched/core.c
kernel/sched/fair.c
kernel/sched/pelt.c
kernel/sched/sched.h