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diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/psi.rst b/Documentation/accounting/psi.rst index f2b3439edcc2..d455db3e5808 100644 --- a/Documentation/accounting/psi.rst +++ b/Documentation/accounting/psi.rst @@ -37,11 +37,7 @@ Pressure interface Pressure information for each resource is exported through the respective file in /proc/pressure/ -- cpu, memory, and io. -The format for CPU is as such:: - - some avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=0 - -and for memory and IO:: +The format is as such:: some avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=0 full avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=0 @@ -58,6 +54,9 @@ situation from a state where some tasks are stalled but the CPU is still doing productive work. As such, time spent in this subset of the stall state is tracked separately and exported in the "full" averages. +CPU full is undefined at the system level, but has been reported +since 5.13, so it is set to zero for backward compatibility. + The ratios (in %) are tracked as recent trends over ten, sixty, and three hundred second windows, which gives insight into short term events as well as medium and long term trends. The total absolute stall time @@ -92,7 +91,8 @@ Triggers can be set on more than one psi metric and more than one trigger for the same psi metric can be specified. However for each trigger a separate file descriptor is required to be able to poll it separately from others, therefore for each trigger a separate open() syscall should be made even -when opening the same psi interface file. +when opening the same psi interface file. Write operations to a file descriptor +with an already existing psi trigger will fail with EBUSY. Monitors activate only when system enters stall state for the monitored psi metric and deactivates upon exit from the stall state. While system is @@ -105,6 +105,10 @@ prevent overly frequent polling. Max limit is chosen as a high enough number after which monitors are most likely not needed and psi averages can be used instead. +Unprivileged users can also create monitors, with the only limitation that the +window size must be a multiple of 2s, in order to prevent excessive resource +usage. + When activated, psi monitor stays active for at least the duration of one tracking window to avoid repeated activations/deactivations when system is bouncing in and out of the stall state. @@ -174,7 +178,7 @@ Userspace monitor usage example Cgroup2 interface ================= -In a system with a CONFIG_CGROUP=y kernel and the cgroup2 filesystem +In a system with a CONFIG_CGROUPS=y kernel and the cgroup2 filesystem mounted, pressure stall information is also tracked for tasks grouped into cgroups. Each subdirectory in the cgroupfs mountpoint contains cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files; the format is |