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authorYang Yang <yang.yang19@zte.com.cn>2023-04-08 17:28:35 +0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-04-18 16:39:34 -0700
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delayacct: track delays from IRQ/SOFTIRQ
Delay accounting does not track the delay of IRQ/SOFTIRQ. While IRQ/SOFTIRQ could have obvious impact on some workloads productivity, such as when workloads are running on system which is busy handling network IRQ/SOFTIRQ. Get the delay of IRQ/SOFTIRQ could help users to reduce such delay. Such as setting interrupt affinity or task affinity, using kernel thread for NAPI etc. This is inspired by "sched/psi: Add PSI_IRQ to track IRQ/SOFTIRQ pressure"[1]. Also fix some code indent problems of older code. And update tools/accounting/getdelays.c: / # ./getdelays -p 156 -di print delayacct stats ON printing IO accounting PID 156 CPU count real total virtual total delay total delay average 15 15836008 16218149 275700790 18.380ms IO count delay total delay average 0 0 0.000ms SWAP count delay total delay average 0 0 0.000ms RECLAIM count delay total delay average 0 0 0.000ms THRASHING count delay total delay average 0 0 0.000ms COMPACT count delay total delay average 0 0 0.000ms WPCOPY count delay total delay average 36 7586118 0.211ms IRQ count delay total delay average 42 929161 0.022ms [1] commit 52b1364ba0b1("sched/psi: Add PSI_IRQ to track IRQ/SOFTIRQ pressure") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202304081728353557233@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Cc: Jiang Xuexin <jiang.xuexin@zte.com.cn> Cc: wangyong <wang.yong12@zte.com.cn> Cc: junhua huang <huang.junhua@zte.com.cn> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/accounting')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.rst7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.rst b/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.rst
index 79f537c9f160..f61c01fc376e 100644
--- a/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.rst
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ d) memory reclaim
e) thrashing
f) direct compact
g) write-protect copy
+h) IRQ/SOFTIRQ
and makes these statistics available to userspace through
the taskstats interface.
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ this structure. See
for a description of the fields pertaining to delay accounting.
It will generally be in the form of counters returning the cumulative
delay seen for cpu, sync block I/O, swapin, memory reclaim, thrash page
-cache, direct compact, write-protect copy etc.
+cache, direct compact, write-protect copy, IRQ/SOFTIRQ etc.
Taking the difference of two successive readings of a given
counter (say cpu_delay_total) for a task will give the delay
@@ -118,7 +119,9 @@ Get sum of delays, since system boot, for all pids with tgid 5::
0 0 0.000ms
COMPACT count delay total delay average
0 0 0.000ms
- WPCOPY count delay total delay average
+ WPCOPY count delay total delay average
+ 0 0 0.000ms
+ IRQ count delay total delay average
0 0 0.000ms
Get IO accounting for pid 1, it works only with -p::