Change the document about iowait
The iowait is not reliable by reading from /proc/stat, so this method to get iowait is not suggested. And we mark it in the document. Signed-off-by: Cao Jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- nice: niced processes executing in user mode
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- system: processes executing in kernel mode
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- idle: twiddling thumbs
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- iowait: waiting for I/O to complete
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- iowait: In a word, iowait stands for waiting for I/O to complete. But there
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are several problems:
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1. Cpu will not wait for I/O to complete, iowait is the time that a task is
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waiting for I/O to complete. When cpu goes into idle state for
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outstanding task io, another task will be scheduled on this CPU.
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2. In a multi-core CPU, the task waiting for I/O to complete is not running
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on any CPU, so the iowait of each CPU is difficult to calculate.
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3. The value of iowait field in /proc/stat will decrease in certain
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conditions.
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So, the iowait is not reliable by reading from /proc/stat.
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- irq: servicing interrupts
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- softirq: servicing softirqs
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- steal: involuntary wait
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