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author | Javi Merino <cibervicho@gmail.com> | 2011-01-31 23:11:36 +0000 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-02-01 09:07:13 +0100 |
commit | 1e1dbb259c79b38a542c1c4c00fd8dfe936b183b (patch) | |
tree | ae240f978095a095253f93848cce0d3c9733706c | |
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sched, docs: Update schedstats documentation to version 15
Version 15 of schedstats was introduced in:
67aa0f767af4: sched: remove unused fields from struct rq
and removed three unused counters in sched_yield(). Update
the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <cibervicho@gmail.com>
Cc: henrix@sapo.pt
Cc: rdunlap@xenotime.net
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt | 33 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt index 01e69404ee5e..1cd5d51bc761 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +Version 15 of schedstats dropped counters for some sched_yield: +yld_exp_empty, yld_act_empty and yld_both_empty. Otherwise, it is +identical to version 14. + Version 14 of schedstats includes support for sched_domains, which hit the mainline kernel in 2.6.20 although it is identical to the stats from version 12 which was in the kernel from 2.6.13-2.6.19 (version 13 never saw a kernel @@ -28,32 +32,25 @@ to write their own scripts, the fields are described here. CPU statistics -------------- -cpu<N> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 - -NOTE: In the sched_yield() statistics, the active queue is considered empty - if it has only one process in it, since obviously the process calling - sched_yield() is that process. +cpu<N> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 -First four fields are sched_yield() statistics: - 1) # of times both the active and the expired queue were empty - 2) # of times just the active queue was empty - 3) # of times just the expired queue was empty - 4) # of times sched_yield() was called +First field is a sched_yield() statistic: + 1) # of times sched_yield() was called Next three are schedule() statistics: - 5) # of times we switched to the expired queue and reused it - 6) # of times schedule() was called - 7) # of times schedule() left the processor idle + 2) # of times we switched to the expired queue and reused it + 3) # of times schedule() was called + 4) # of times schedule() left the processor idle Next two are try_to_wake_up() statistics: - 8) # of times try_to_wake_up() was called - 9) # of times try_to_wake_up() was called to wake up the local cpu + 5) # of times try_to_wake_up() was called + 6) # of times try_to_wake_up() was called to wake up the local cpu Next three are statistics describing scheduling latency: - 10) sum of all time spent running by tasks on this processor (in jiffies) - 11) sum of all time spent waiting to run by tasks on this processor (in + 7) sum of all time spent running by tasks on this processor (in jiffies) + 8) sum of all time spent waiting to run by tasks on this processor (in jiffies) - 12) # of timeslices run on this cpu + 9) # of timeslices run on this cpu Domain statistics |