* Balbir Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, Ingo,
>
> I've implemented a patch on top of v14 for better accounting of
> sched_info statistics. Earlier, sched_info relied on jiffies for
> accounting and I've seen applications that show "0" cpu usage
> statistics (in delay accounting and from /proc) even though they've
> been running on the CPU for a long time. The basic problem is that
> accounting in jiffies is too coarse to be accurate.
>
> The patch below uses sched_clock() for sched_info accounting.
nice! I've merged your patch and it built/booted fine so it should show
up in -v15. This should also play well with Andi's sched_clock()
enhancements in -mm, slated for .23.
btw., i think some more consolidation could be done in this area. We've
now got the traditional /proc/PID/stat metrics, schedstats, taskstats
and delay accounting and with CFS we've got /proc/sched_debug and
/proc/PID/sched. There's a fair amount of overlap.
btw., CFS does this change to fs/proc/array.c:
@@ -410,6 +408,14 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct task_stru
/* convert nsec -> ticks */
start_time = nsec_to_clock_t(start_time);
+ /*
+ * Use CFS's precise accounting, if available:
+ */
+ if (!has_rt_policy(task)) {
+ utime = nsec_to_clock_t(task->sum_exec_runtime);
+ stime = 0;
+ }
+
res = sprintf(buffer,"%d (%s) %c %d %d %d %d %d %lu %lu \
%lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %ld %ld %ld %ld %d 0 %llu %lu %ld %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu \
%lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %d %d %lu %lu %llu\n",
if you have some spare capacity to improve this code, it could be
further enhanced by not setting 'stime' to zero, but using the existing
jiffies based utime/stime statistics as a _ratio_ to split up the
precise p->sum_exec_runtime. That way we dont have to add precise
accounting to syscall entry/exit points (that would be quite expensive),
but still the sum of utime+stime would be very precise. (and that's what
matters most anyway)
Ingo
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