delayacct: track delays from thrashing cache pages
authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 22:06:08 +0000 (15:06 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 23:26:32 +0000 (16:26 -0700)
commitb1d29ba82cf2bc784f4c963ddd6a2cf29e229b33
tree4fc15315a4c1f8c1d1e99968a3077dcf1ac45407
parent1899ad18c6072d689896badafb81267b0a1092a4
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>
include/linux/delayacct.h
include/uapi/linux/taskstats.h
kernel/delayacct.c
mm/filemap.c
tools/accounting/getdelays.c