[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: sync block I/O and swapin delay collection

Unlike earlier iterations of the delay accounting patches, now delays are only
collected for the actual I/O waits rather than try and cover the delays seen
in I/O submission paths.

Account separately for block I/O delays incurred as a result of swapin page
faults whose frequency can be affected by the task/process' rss limit.  Hence
swapin delays can act as feedback for rss limit changes independent of I/O
priority changes.

Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de>
Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Shailabh Nagar
2006-07-14 00:24:37 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent ca74e92b46
commit 0ff922452d
5 changed files with 66 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -85,3 +85,22 @@ static void delayacct_end(struct timespec *start, struct timespec *end,
spin_unlock(&current->delays->lock);
}
void __delayacct_blkio_start(void)
{
delayacct_start(&current->delays->blkio_start);
}
void __delayacct_blkio_end(void)
{
if (current->delays->flags & DELAYACCT_PF_SWAPIN)
/* Swapin block I/O */
delayacct_end(&current->delays->blkio_start,
&current->delays->blkio_end,
&current->delays->swapin_delay,
&current->delays->swapin_count);
else /* Other block I/O */
delayacct_end(&current->delays->blkio_start,
&current->delays->blkio_end,
&current->delays->blkio_delay,
&current->delays->blkio_count);
}