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/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Daniel Drake <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Enderborg <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Cc: Vinayak Menon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Johannes Weiner 2018-10-26 15:06:31 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -62,3 +62,12 @@ well as medium and long term trends. The total absolute stall time is
tracked and exported as well, to allow detection of latency spikes
which wouldn't necessarily make a dent in the time averages, or to
average trends over custom time frames.
Cgroup2 interface
=================
In a system with a CONFIG_CGROUP=y kernel and the cgroup2 filesystem
mounted, pressure stall information is also tracked for tasks grouped
into cgroups. Each subdirectory in the cgroupfs mountpoint contains
cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files; the format is
the same as the /proc/pressure/ files.