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per-task-delay-accounting: add memory reclaim delay 

Sometimes, application responses become bad under heavy memory load.
Applications take a bit time to reclaim memory.  The statistics, how long
memory reclaim takes, will be useful to measure memory usage.

This patch adds accounting memory reclaim to per-task-delay-accounting for
accounting the time of do_try_to_free_pages().

<i.e>

- When System is under low memory load,
  memory reclaim may not occur.

$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       8197800    1577300    6620500          0       4808    1516724
-/+ buffers/cache:      55768    8142032
Swap:     16386292          0   16386292

$ vmstat 1
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
 0  0      0 5069748  10612 3014060    0    0     0     0    3   26  0  0 100  0
 0  0      0 5069748  10612 3014060    0    0     0     0    4   22  0  0 100  0
 0  0      0 5069748  10612 3014060    0    0     0     0    3   18  0  0 100  0

Measure the time of tar command.

$ ls -s test.dat
1501472 test.dat

$ time tar cvf test.tar test.dat
real    0m13.388s
user    0m0.116s
sys     0m5.304s

$ ./delayget -d -p <pid>
CPU             count     real total  virtual total    delay total
                  428     5528345500     5477116080       62749891
IO              count    delay total
                  338     8078977189
SWAP            count    delay total
                    0              0
RECLAIM         count    delay total
                    0              0

- When system is under heavy memory load
  memory reclaim may occur.

$ vmstat 1
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
 0  0 7159032  49724   1812   3012    0    0     0     0    3   24  0  0 100  0
 0  0 7159032  49724   1812   3012    0    0     0     0    4   24  0  0 100  0
 0  0 7159032  49848   1812   3012    0    0     0     0    3   22  0  0 100  0

In this case, one process uses more 8G memory
by execution of malloc() and memset().

$ time tar cvf test.tar test.dat
real    1m38.563s        <-  increased by 85 sec
user    0m0.140s
sys     0m7.060s

$ ./delayget -d -p <pid>
CPU             count     real total  virtual total    delay total
                 9021     7140446250     7315277975      923201824
IO              count    delay total
                 8965    90466349669
SWAP            count    delay total
                    3       21036367
RECLAIM         count    delay total
                  740    61011951153

In the later case, the value of RECLAIM is increasing.
So, taskstats can show how much memory reclaim influences TAT.

Signed-off-by: Keika Kobayashi <kobayashi.kk@ncos.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujistu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Keika Kobayashi 2008-07-25 01:48:52 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3e85ba034d
commit 873b477177
4 changed files with 41 additions and 0 deletions
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19
include/linux/delayacct.h
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@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ extern void __delayacct_blkio_start(void);
extern void __delayacct_blkio_end(void);
extern int __delayacct_add_tsk(struct taskstats *, struct task_struct *);
extern __u64 __delayacct_blkio_ticks(struct task_struct *);
extern void __delayacct_freepages_start(void);
extern void __delayacct_freepages_end(void);
static inline int delayacct_is_task_waiting_on_io(struct task_struct *p)
{
@ -107,6 +109,18 @@ static inline __u64 delayacct_blkio_ticks(struct task_struct *tsk)
return 0;
}
static inline void delayacct_freepages_start(void)
{
if (current->delays)
__delayacct_freepages_start();
}
static inline void delayacct_freepages_end(void)
{
if (current->delays)
__delayacct_freepages_end();
}
#else
static inline void delayacct_set_flag(int flag)
{}
@ -129,6 +143,11 @@ static inline __u64 delayacct_blkio_ticks(struct task_struct *tsk)
{ return 0; }
static inline int delayacct_is_task_waiting_on_io(struct task_struct *p)
{ return 0; }
static inline void delayacct_freepages_start(void)
{}
static inline void delayacct_freepages_end(void)
{}
#endif /* CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT */
#endif

4
include/linux/sched.h
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@ -672,6 +672,10 @@ struct task_delay_info {
/* io operations performed */
u32 swapin_count; /* total count of the number of swapin block */
/* io operations performed */
struct timespec freepages_start, freepages_end;
u64 freepages_delay; /* wait for memory reclaim */
u32 freepages_count; /* total count of memory reclaim */
};
#endif /* CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT */

13
kernel/delayacct.c
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@ -165,3 +165,16 @@ __u64 __delayacct_blkio_ticks(struct task_struct *tsk)
return ret;
}
void __delayacct_freepages_start(void)
{
delayacct_start(&current->delays->freepages_start);
}
void __delayacct_freepages_end(void)
{
delayacct_end(&current->delays->freepages_start,
&current->delays->freepages_end,
&current->delays->freepages_delay,
&current->delays->freepages_count);
}

5
mm/vmscan.c
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@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/freezer.h>
#include <linux/memcontrol.h>
#include <linux/delayacct.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
#include <asm/div64.h>
@ -1316,6 +1317,8 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
struct zone *zone;
enum zone_type high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask);
delayacct_freepages_start();
if (scan_global_lru(sc))
count_vm_event(ALLOCSTALL);
/*
@ -1396,6 +1399,8 @@ out:
} else
mem_cgroup_record_reclaim_priority(sc->mem_cgroup, priority);
delayacct_freepages_end();
return ret;
}