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| author |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-29 00:07:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-29 00:07:55 +0200 |
| commit | cb28a1bbdb4790378e7366d6c9ee1d2340b84f92 (patch) | |
| tree | 316436f77dac75335fd2c3ef5f109e71606c50d3 /Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt | |
| parent | dma-coherent: add documentation to new interfaces (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-cb28a1bbdb4790378e7366d6c9ee1d2340b84f92.tar.xz linux-dev-cb28a1bbdb4790378e7366d6c9ee1d2340b84f92.zip | |
Merge branch 'linus' into core/generic-dma-coherent
Conflicts:
arch/x86/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt b/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt index 1443cd71d263..8a12f0730c94 100644 --- a/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt +++ b/Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.txt @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ the delays experienced by a task while a) waiting for a CPU (while being runnable) b) completion of synchronous block I/O initiated by the task c) swapping in pages +d) memory reclaim and makes these statistics available to userspace through the taskstats interface. @@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ this structure. See include/linux/taskstats.h for a description of the fields pertaining to delay accounting. It will generally be in the form of counters returning the cumulative -delay seen for cpu, sync block I/O, swapin etc. +delay seen for cpu, sync block I/O, swapin, memory reclaim etc. Taking the difference of two successive readings of a given counter (say cpu_delay_total) for a task will give the delay @@ -94,7 +95,9 @@ CPU count real total virtual total delay total 7876 92005750 100000000 24001500 IO count delay total 0 0 -MEM count delay total +SWAP count delay total + 0 0 +RECLAIM count delay total 0 0 Get delays seen in executing a given simple command @@ -108,5 +111,7 @@ CPU count real total virtual total delay total 6 4000250 4000000 0 IO count delay total 0 0 -MEM count delay total +SWAP count delay total + 0 0 +RECLAIM count delay total 0 0 |