The "getdelays" can only display the latency of a single task by
specifying a PID, we introduce the "delaytop" with the following
capabilities:
1. system view: monitors latency metrics (CPU, I/O, memory, IRQ, etc.)
for all system processes
2. supports field-based sorting (e.g., default sort by CPU latency in
descending order)
3. dynamic interactive interface: focus on specific processes with
--pid; limit displayed entries with --processes 20; control monitoring
duration with --iterations;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2025071013514177028RdjISjqeIOnTCRvGAwy@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Fan Yu <fan.yu9@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Wang Yaxin <wang.yaxin@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Kun <jiang.kun2@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Peilin He <he.peilin@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Qiang Tu <tu.qiang35@zte.com.cn>
Cc: wangyong <wang.yong12@zte.com.cn>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Yunkai Zhang <zhang.yunkai@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Delay accounting can now calculate the average delay of processes, detect
the overall system load, and also record the 'delay max' to identify
potential abnormal delays. However, 'delay min' can help us identify
another useful delay peak. By comparing the difference between 'delay
max' and 'delay min', we can understand the optimization space for
latency, providing a reference for the optimization of latency
performance.
Use case
=========
bash-4.4# ./getdelays -d -t 242
print delayacct stats ON
TGID 242
CPU count real total virtual total delay total delay average delay max delay min
39 156000000 156576579 2111069 0.054ms 0.212296ms 0.031307ms
IO count delay total delay average delay max delay min
0 0 0.000ms 0.000000ms 0.000000ms
SWAP count delay total delay average delay max delay min
0 0 0.000ms 0.000000ms 0.000000ms
RECLAIM count delay total delay average delay max delay min
0 0 0.000ms 0.000000ms 0.000000ms
THRASHING count delay total delay average delay max delay min
0 0 0.000ms 0.000000ms 0.000000ms
COMPACT count delay total delay average delay max delay min
0 0 0.000ms 0.000000ms 0.000000ms
WPCOPY count delay total delay average delay max delay min
156 11215873 0.072ms 0.207403ms 0.033913ms
IRQ count delay total delay average delay max delay min
0 0 0.000ms 0.000000ms 0.000000ms
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241220173105906EOdsPhzjMLYNJJBqgz1ga@zte.com.cn
Co-developed-by: Wang Yong <wang.yong12@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Wang Yong <wang.yong12@zte.com.cn>
Co-developed-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Wang Yaxin <wang.yaxin@zte.com.cn>
Co-developed-by: Kun Jiang <jiang.kun2@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Kun Jiang <jiang.kun2@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Fan Yu <fan.yu9@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Peilin He <he.peilin@zte.com.cn>
Cc: tuqiang <tu.qiang35@zte.com.cn>
Cc: ye xingchen <ye.xingchen@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Yunkai Zhang <zhang.yunkai@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce the use cases of delay max, which can help quickly detect
potential abnormal delays in the system and record the types and specific
details of delay spikes.
Problem
========
Delay accounting can track the average delay of processes to show
system workload. However, when a process experiences a significant
delay, maybe a delay spike, which adversely affects performance,
getdelays can only display the average system delay over a period
of time. Yet, average delay is unhelpful for diagnosing delay peak.
It is not even possible to determine which type of delay has spiked,
as this information might be masked by the average delay.
Solution
=========
the 'delay max' can display delay peak since the system's startup,
which can record potential abnormal delays over time, including
the type of delay and the maximum delay. This is helpful for
quickly identifying crash caused by delay.
Use case
=========
bash# ./getdelays -d -p 244
print delayacct stats ON
PID 244
CPU count real total virtual total delay total delay average delay max
68 192000000 213676651 705643 0.010ms 0.306381ms
IO count delay total delay average delay max
0 0 0.000ms 0.000000ms
SWAP count delay total delay average delay max
0 0 0.000ms 0.000000ms
RECLAIM count delay total delay average delay max
0 0 0.000ms 0.000000ms
THRASHING count delay total delay average delay max
0 0 0.000ms 0.000000ms
COMPACT count delay total delay average delay max
0 0 0.000ms 0.000000ms
WPCOPY count delay total delay average delay max
235 15648284 0.067ms 0.263842ms
IRQ count delay total delay average delay max
0 0 0.000ms 0.000000ms
[wang.yaxin@zte.com.cn: update docs and fix some spelling errors]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241213192700771XKZ8H30OtHSeziGqRVMs0@zte.com.cn
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241203164848805CS62CQPQWG9GLdQj2_BxS@zte.com.cn
Co-developed-by: Wang Yong <wang.yong12@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Wang Yong <wang.yong12@zte.com.cn>
Co-developed-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Co-developed-by: Wang Yaxin <wang.yaxin@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Wang Yaxin <wang.yaxin@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Kun Jiang <jiang.kun2@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Fan Yu <fan.yu9@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Peilin He <he.peilin@zte.com.cn>
Cc: tuqiang <tu.qiang35@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Cc: ye xingchen <ye.xingchen@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Yunkai Zhang <zhang.yunkai@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Delay accounting does not track the delay of IRQ/SOFTIRQ. While
IRQ/SOFTIRQ could have obvious impact on some workloads productivity, such
as when workloads are running on system which is busy handling network
IRQ/SOFTIRQ.
Get the delay of IRQ/SOFTIRQ could help users to reduce such delay. Such
as setting interrupt affinity or task affinity, using kernel thread for
NAPI etc. This is inspired by "sched/psi: Add PSI_IRQ to track
IRQ/SOFTIRQ pressure"[1]. Also fix some code indent problems of older
code.
And update tools/accounting/getdelays.c:
/ # ./getdelays -p 156 -di
print delayacct stats ON
printing IO accounting
PID 156
CPU count real total virtual total delay total delay average
15 15836008 16218149 275700790 18.380ms
IO count delay total delay average
0 0 0.000ms
SWAP count delay total delay average
0 0 0.000ms
RECLAIM count delay total delay average
0 0 0.000ms
THRASHING count delay total delay average
0 0 0.000ms
COMPACT count delay total delay average
0 0 0.000ms
WPCOPY count delay total delay average
36 7586118 0.211ms
IRQ count delay total delay average
42 929161 0.022ms
[1] commit 52b1364ba0b1("sched/psi: Add PSI_IRQ to track IRQ/SOFTIRQ pressure")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202304081728353557233@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Jiang Xuexin <jiang.xuexin@zte.com.cn>
Cc: wangyong <wang.yong12@zte.com.cn>
Cc: junhua huang <huang.junhua@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Improve the average delay precision of getdelay tool to microsecond. When
using the getdelay tool, it is sometimes found that the average delay
except CPU is not 0, but display is 0, because the precison is too low.
For example, see delay average of SWAP below when using ZRAM.
print delayacct stats ON
PID 32915
CPU count real total virtual total delay total delay average
339202 2793871936 9233585504 7951112 0.000ms
IO count delay total delay average
41 419296904 10ms
SWAP count delay total delay average
242589 1045792384 0ms
This wrong display is misleading, so improve the millisecond precision of
the average delay to microsecond just like CPU. Then user would get more
accurate information of delay time.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202302131408087983857@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Wang Yong <wang.yong12@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Once upon a time, we only support accounting thrashing of page cache.
Then Joonsoo introduced workingset detection for anonymous pages and we
gained the ability to account thrashing of them[1].
So let delayacct account both the thrashing of page cache and anonymous
pages, this could make the codes more consistent and simpler.
[1] commit aae466b005 ("mm/swap: implement workingset detection for anonymous LRU")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220805033838.1714674-1-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: CGEL ZTE <cgel.zte@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Delay accounting does not track the delay of write-protect copy. When
tasks trigger many write-protect copys(include COW and unsharing of
anonymous pages[1]), it may spend a amount of time waiting for them. To
get the delay of tasks in write-protect copy, could help users to evaluate
the impact of using KSM or fork() or GUP.
Also update tools/accounting/getdelays.c:
/ # ./getdelays -dl -p 231
print delayacct stats ON
listen forever
PID 231
CPU count real total virtual total delay total delay average
6247 1859000000 2154070021 1674255063 0.268ms
IO count delay total delay average
0 0 0ms
SWAP count delay total delay average
0 0 0ms
RECLAIM count delay total delay average
0 0 0ms
THRASHING count delay total delay average
0 0 0ms
COMPACT count delay total delay average
3 72758 0ms
WPCOPY count delay total delay average
3635 271567604 0ms
[1] commit 31cc5bc4af70("mm: support GUP-triggered unsharing of anonymous pages")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220409014342.2505532-1-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Xuexin <jiang.xuexin@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: wangyong <wang.yong12@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Assuming this stuff isn't actually used much; disable it by default
and avoid allocating and tracking the task_delay_info structure.
taskstats is changed to still report the regular sched and sched_info
and only skip the missing task_delay_info fields instead of not
reporting anything.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210505111525.308018373@infradead.org
Rename the accounting documentation files to ReST, add an
index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html
output via the Sphinx build system.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
