linux/include
Johannes Weiner b1d29ba82c 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>
2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
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acpi pci-v4.20-changes 2018-10-25 06:50:48 -07:00
asm-generic mm: remove references to vm_insert_pfn() 2018-10-26 16:25:20 -07:00
clocksource
crypto crypto/morus(640,1280) - make crypto_...-algs static 2018-10-05 10:22:48 +08:00
drm drm: Get ref on CRTC commit object when waiting for flip_done 2018-10-18 14:23:13 -04:00
dt-bindings USB/PHY patches for 4.20-rc1 2018-10-26 08:14:13 -07:00
keys
kvm KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v3: Add core support for Group0 SGIs 2018-08-12 12:06:34 +01:00
linux delayacct: track delays from thrashing cache pages 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
math-emu
media media: v4l: event: Prevent freeing event subscriptions while accessed 2018-10-03 06:32:51 -04:00
memory
misc
net tcp: add tcp_reset_xmit_timer() helper 2018-10-23 19:42:44 -07:00
pcmcia pcmcia: remove long deprecated pcmcia_request_exclusive_irq() function 2018-08-18 12:30:42 -07:00
ras
rdma First merge window pull request 2018-10-26 07:38:19 -07:00
scsi SCSI misc on 20180815 2018-08-15 22:06:26 -07:00
soc Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-10-25 16:43:35 -07:00
sound ASoC: Updates for v5.0/v4.20 2018-10-22 23:26:37 +02:00
target scsi: target/core: Remove the SCF_COMPARE_AND_WRITE_POST flag 2018-10-16 01:13:35 -04:00
trace mm: workingset: tell cache transitions from workingset thrashing 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
uapi delayacct: track delays from thrashing cache pages 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
video fbdev changes for v4.19: 2018-08-23 15:44:58 -07:00
xen Merge branch 'x86-paravirt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-10-23 17:54:58 +01:00