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.
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
experienced by the task waiting for the corresponding resource
in that interval.
-When a task exits, records containing the per-task and per-process statistics
-are sent to userspace without requiring a command. More details are given in
-the taskstats interface description.
+When a task exits, records containing the per-task statistics
+are sent to userspace without requiring a command. If it is the last exiting
+task of a thread group, the per-tgid statistics are also sent. More details
+are given in the taskstats interface description.
The getdelays.c userspace utility in this directory allows simple commands to
be run and the corresponding delay statistics to be displayed. It also serves
CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT=y
CONFIG_TASKSTATS=y
-Enable the accounting at boot time by adding
-the following to the kernel boot options
- delayacct
+Delay accounting is enabled by default at boot up.
+To disable, add
+ nodelayacct
+to the kernel boot options. The rest of the instructions
+below assume this has not been done.
-and after the system has booted up, use a utility
+After the system has booted up, use a utility
similar to getdelays.c to access the delays
seen by a given task or a task group (tgid).
The utility also allows a given command to be
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+RECLAIM count delay total
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