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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2018-10-26 15:06:31 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-10-26 16:26:32 -0700
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psi: cgroup support
On a system that executes multiple cgrouped jobs and independent workloads, we don't just care about the health of the overall system, but also that of individual jobs, so that we can ensure individual job health, fairness between jobs, or prioritize some jobs over others. This patch implements pressure stall tracking for cgroups. In kernels with CONFIG_PSI=y, cgroup2 groups will have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files that track aggregate pressure stall times for only the tasks inside the cgroup. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828172258.3185-10-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.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: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -501,6 +501,10 @@ config PSI
the share of walltime in which some or all tasks in the system are
delayed due to contention of the respective resource.
+ In kernels with cgroup support, cgroups (cgroup2 only) will
+ have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files,
+ which aggregate pressure stalls for the grouped tasks only.
+
For more details see Documentation/accounting/psi.txt.
Say N if unsure.