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authorKeika Kobayashi <kobayashi.kk@ncos.nec.co.jp>2008-07-25 12:48:52 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-25 21:53:47 +0400
commit873b47717732c2f33a4b14de02571a4295a02f0c (patch)
treeaaef0fe872dbd4ce5c290f3509e5db69f9a3f04a /mm/vmscan.c
parent3e85ba034deec351f02cb55ff225bbd616463841 (diff)
downloadlinux-873b47717732c2f33a4b14de02571a4295a02f0c.tar.xz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 967d30ccd92b..26672c6cd3ce 100644
--- 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;
}