blk-cgroup: show global disk stats in root cgroup io.stat

In order to improve consistency and usability in cgroup stat accounting,
we would like to support the root cgroup's io.stat.

Since the root cgroup has processes doing io even if the system has no
explicitly created cgroups, we need to be careful to avoid overhead in
that case.  For that reason, the rstat algorithms don't handle the root
cgroup, so just turning the file on wouldn't give correct statistics.

To get around this, we simulate flushing the iostat struct by filling it
out directly from global disk stats. The result is a root cgroup io.stat
file consistent with both /proc/diskstats and io.stat.

Note that in order to collect the disk stats, we needed to iterate over
devices. To facilitate that, we had to change the linkage of a disk_type
to external so that it can be used from blk-cgroup.c to iterate over
disks.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This commit is contained in:
Boris Burkov
2020-06-01 13:12:05 -07:00
committed by Jens Axboe
parent cd1fc4b98f
commit ef45fe470e
4 changed files with 58 additions and 7 deletions

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@@ -1483,8 +1483,7 @@ IO Interface Files
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io.stat
A read-only nested-keyed file which exists on non-root
cgroups.
A read-only nested-keyed file.
Lines are keyed by $MAJ:$MIN device numbers and not ordered.
The following nested keys are defined.