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>

diff --git a/include/linux/delayacct.h b/include/linux/delayacct.h
index ab94bc083558c329c8a59e49ff3c7af6076627ca..f352f06fa063b2bd73543403a4e24aca39f4a9d1 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/delayacct.h
+++ b/include/linux/delayacct.h
@@ -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

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index d22ffe06d0eb3d670f9714482f33b9d144fbede3..42036ffe6b00f5bb939c5e576d6bce5bf0518346 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -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 */
 

diff --git a/kernel/delayacct.c b/kernel/delayacct.c
index 10e43fd8b721a7c28f44dbb60515efa9d0d4042d..84b6782a2ce4a4fe077e4239875fb5143cb7e7e8 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/delayacct.c
+++ b/kernel/delayacct.c
@@ -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);
+}
+

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 967d30ccd92b8f3a453951104a761986b6d88a6a..26672c6cd3cef37bd4b8d8df8512b814957b71f3 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -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;
 }