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Message-id: <200703250832.36818.gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:32:36 -0400
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>, malc <av1474@...tv.ru>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, zwane@...radead.org,
ck list <ck@....kolivas.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] sched: accurate user accounting
On Sunday 25 March 2007, Con Kolivas wrote:
>On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:46, Con Kolivas wrote:
>> On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:34, malc wrote:
>> > On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> > > * Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org> wrote:
>> > >> For an rsdl 0.33 patched kernel. Comments? Overhead worth it?
>> > >
>> > > we want to do this - and we should do this to the vanilla
>> > > scheduler first and check the results. I've back-merged the patch
>> > > to before RSDL and have tested it - find the patch below. Vale,
>> > > could you try this patch against a 2.6.21-rc4-ish kernel and
>> > > re-test your testcase?
>> >
>> > [..snip..]
>> >
>> > Compilation failed with:
>> > kernel/built-in.o(.sched.text+0x564): more undefined references to
>> > `__udivdi3' follow
>> >
>> > $ gcc --version | head -1
>> > gcc (GCC) 3.4.6
>> >
>> > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep cpu
>> > cpu : 7447A, altivec supported
>> >
>> > Can't say i really understand why 64bit arithmetics suddenly became
>> > an issue here.
>>
>> Probably due to use of:
>>
>> #define NS_TO_JIFFIES(TIME) ((TIME) / (1000000000 / HZ))
>> #define JIFFIES_TO_NS(TIME) ((TIME) * (1000000000 / HZ))
>>
>> Excuse our 64bit world while we strive to correct our 32bit blindness
>> and fix this bug.
>
>Please try this (akpm please don't include till we confirm it builds on
> ppc, sorry). For 2.6.21-rc4
>
>---
>Currently we only do cpu accounting to userspace based on what is
>actually happening precisely on each tick. The accuracy of that
>accounting gets progressively worse the lower HZ is. As we already keep
>accounting of nanosecond resolution we can accurately track user cpu,
>nice cpu and idle cpu if we move the accounting to update_cpu_clock with
>a nanosecond cpu_usage_stat entry. This increases overhead slightly but
>avoids the problem of tick aliasing errors making accounting unreliable.
>
>Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>
>Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
>---
> include/linux/kernel_stat.h | 3 ++
> include/linux/sched.h | 2 -
> kernel/sched.c | 46
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- kernel/timer.c
> | 5 +---
> 4 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
>Index: linux-2.6.21-rc4-acct/include/linux/kernel_stat.h
>===================================================================
>--- linux-2.6.21-rc4-acct.orig/include/linux/kernel_stat.h 2006-09-21
> 19:54:58.000000000 +1000 +++
> linux-2.6.21-rc4-acct/include/linux/kernel_stat.h 2007-03-25
> 21:51:49.000000000 +1000 @@ -16,11 +16,14 @@
>
> struct cpu_usage_stat {
> cputime64_t user;
>+ cputime64_t user_ns;
> cputime64_t nice;
>+ cputime64_t nice_ns;
> cputime64_t system;
> cputime64_t softirq;
> cputime64_t irq;
> cputime64_t idle;
>+ cputime64_t idle_ns;
> cputime64_t iowait;
> cputime64_t steal;
> };
>Index: linux-2.6.21-rc4-acct/include/linux/sched.h
>===================================================================
>--- linux-2.6.21-rc4-acct.orig/include/linux/sched.h 2007-03-21
> 12:53:00.000000000 +1100 +++
> linux-2.6.21-rc4-acct/include/linux/sched.h 2007-03-25
> 21:51:49.000000000 +1000 @@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ struct task_struct {
> int __user *clear_child_tid; /* CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID */
>
> unsigned long rt_priority;
>- cputime_t utime, stime;
>+ cputime_t utime, utime_ns, stime;
> unsigned long nvcsw, nivcsw; /* context switch counts */
> struct timespec start_time;
> /* mm fault and swap info: this can arguably be seen as either
> mm-specific or thread-specific */ Index:
> linux-2.6.21-rc4-acct/kernel/sched.c
>===================================================================
This, hunk 1, did not apply as the #defines aren't there after applying
0.33 to a 2.6.20.4 kernel tree.
>--- linux-2.6.21-rc4-acct.orig/kernel/sched.c 2007-03-21
> 12:53:00.000000000 +1100 +++
> linux-2.6.21-rc4-acct/kernel/sched.c 2007-03-25 21:58:27.000000000
> +1000 @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ unsigned long long __attribute__((weak))
> */
> #define NS_TO_JIFFIES(TIME) ((TIME) / (1000000000 / HZ))
> #define JIFFIES_TO_NS(TIME) ((TIME) * (1000000000 / HZ))
>+#define JIFFY_NS JIFFIES_TO_NS(1)
>
> /*
> * These are the 'tuning knobs' of the scheduler:
>@@ -3017,8 +3018,49 @@ EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(kstat);
> static inline void
> update_cpu_clock(struct task_struct *p, struct rq *rq, unsigned long
> long now) {
>- p->sched_time += now - p->last_ran;
>+ struct cpu_usage_stat *cpustat = &kstat_this_cpu.cpustat;
>+ cputime64_t time_diff = now - p->last_ran;
>+
>+ p->sched_time += time_diff;
> p->last_ran = rq->most_recent_timestamp = now;
>+ if (p != rq->idle) {
>+ cputime_t utime_diff = time_diff;
>+
>+ if (TASK_NICE(p) > 0) {
>+ cpustat->nice_ns = cputime64_add(cpustat->nice_ns,
>+ time_diff);
>+ if (cpustat->nice_ns > JIFFY_NS) {
>+ cpustat->nice_ns =
>+ cputime64_sub(cpustat->nice_ns,
>+ JIFFY_NS);
>+ cpustat->nice =
>+ cputime64_add(cpustat->nice, 1);
>+ }
>+ } else {
>+ cpustat->user_ns = cputime64_add(cpustat->user_ns,
>+ time_diff);
>+ if (cpustat->user_ns > JIFFY_NS) {
>+ cpustat->user_ns =
>+ cputime64_sub(cpustat->user_ns,
>+ JIFFY_NS);
>+ cpustat ->user =
>+ cputime64_add(cpustat->user, 1);
>+ }
>+ }
>+ p->utime_ns = cputime_add(p->utime_ns, utime_diff);
>+ if (p->utime_ns > JIFFY_NS) {
>+ p->utime_ns = cputime_sub(p->utime_ns, JIFFY_NS);
>+ p->utime = cputime_add(p->utime,
>+ jiffies_to_cputime(1));
>+ }
>+ } else {
>+ cpustat->idle_ns = cputime64_add(cpustat->idle_ns, time_diff);
>+ if (cpustat->idle_ns > JIFFY_NS) {
>+ cpustat->idle_ns = cputime64_sub(cpustat->idle_ns,
>+ JIFFY_NS);
>+ cpustat->idle = cputime64_add(cpustat->idle, 1);
>+ }
>+ }
> }
>
> /*
>@@ -3104,8 +3146,6 @@ void account_system_time(struct task_str
> cpustat->system = cputime64_add(cpustat->system, tmp);
> else if (atomic_read(&rq->nr_iowait) > 0)
> cpustat->iowait = cputime64_add(cpustat->iowait, tmp);
>- else
>- cpustat->idle = cputime64_add(cpustat->idle, tmp);
> /* Account for system time used */
> acct_update_integrals(p);
> }
>Index: linux-2.6.21-rc4-acct/kernel/timer.c
>===================================================================
>--- linux-2.6.21-rc4-acct.orig/kernel/timer.c 2007-03-21
> 12:53:00.000000000 +1100 +++
> linux-2.6.21-rc4-acct/kernel/timer.c 2007-03-25 21:51:49.000000000
> +1000 @@ -1196,10 +1196,9 @@ void update_process_times(int user_tick)
> int cpu = smp_processor_id();
>
> /* Note: this timer irq context must be accounted for as well. */
>- if (user_tick)
>- account_user_time(p, jiffies_to_cputime(1));
>- else
>+ if (!user_tick)
> account_system_time(p, HARDIRQ_OFFSET, jiffies_to_cputime(1));
>+ /* User time is accounted for in update_cpu_clock in sched.c */
> run_local_timers();
> if (rcu_pending(cpu))
> rcu_check_callbacks(cpu, user_tick);
I'm playing again because the final 2.6.20.4 does NOT break amanda, where
2.6.20.4-rc1 did.
--
Cheers, Gene
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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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