delayacct: track delays from thrashing cache pages

Delay accounting already measures the time a task spends in direct reclaim
and waiting for swapin, but in low memory situations tasks spend can spend
a significant amount of their time waiting on thrashing page cache.  This
isn't tracked right now.

To know the full impact of memory contention on an individual task,
measure the delay when waiting for a recently evicted active cache page to
read back into memory.

Also update tools/accounting/getdelays.c:

     [hannes@computer accounting]$ sudo ./getdelays -d -p 1
     print delayacct stats ON
     PID     1

     CPU             count     real total  virtual total    delay total  delay average
                     50318      745000000      847346785      400533713          0.008ms
     IO              count    delay total  delay average
                       435      122601218              0ms
     SWAP            count    delay total  delay average
                         0              0              0ms
     RECLAIM         count    delay total  delay average
                         0              0              0ms
     THRASHING       count    delay total  delay average
                        19       12621439              0ms

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <[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: Tejun Heo <[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 15:06:08 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit b1d29ba82c
5 changed files with 61 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -203,6 +203,8 @@ static void print_delayacct(struct taskstats *t)
"SWAP %15s%15s%15s\n"
" %15llu%15llu%15llums\n"
"RECLAIM %12s%15s%15s\n"
" %15llu%15llu%15llums\n"
"THRASHING%12s%15s%15s\n"
" %15llu%15llu%15llums\n",
"count", "real total", "virtual total",
"delay total", "delay average",
@ -222,7 +224,11 @@ static void print_delayacct(struct taskstats *t)
"count", "delay total", "delay average",
(unsigned long long)t->freepages_count,
(unsigned long long)t->freepages_delay_total,
average_ms(t->freepages_delay_total, t->freepages_count));
average_ms(t->freepages_delay_total, t->freepages_count),
"count", "delay total", "delay average",
(unsigned long long)t->thrashing_count,
(unsigned long long)t->thrashing_delay_total,
average_ms(t->thrashing_delay_total, t->thrashing_count));
}
static void task_context_switch_counts(struct taskstats *t)