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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2021-05-12 12:40:35 +0100
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2021-05-18 12:53:53 +0200
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delayacct: Document task_delayacct sysctl
Update sysctl/kernel.rst. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210512114035.GH3672@suse.de
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@@ -1087,6 +1087,13 @@ Model available). If your platform happens to meet the
requirements for EAS but you do not want to use it, change
this value to 0.
+task_delayacct
+===============
+
+Enables/disables task delay accounting (see
+:doc:`accounting/delay-accounting.rst`). Enabling this feature incurs
+a small amount of overhead in the scheduler but is useful for debugging
+and performance tuning. It is required by some tools such as iotop.
sched_schedstats
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