From f0afe96b6dca902cbbec1b9c4890d3fb46d698e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suren Baghdasaryan Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 15:41:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] psi: introduce psi monitor commit 0e94682b73bfa6c44c98af7a26771c9c08c055d5 upstream. Psi monitor aims to provide a low-latency short-term pressure detection mechanism configurable by users. It allows users to monitor psi metrics growth and trigger events whenever a metric raises above user-defined threshold within user-defined time window. Time window and threshold are both expressed in usecs. Multiple psi resources with different thresholds and window sizes can be monitored concurrently. Psi monitors activate when system enters stall state for the monitored psi metric and deactivate upon exit from the stall state. While system is in the stall state psi signal growth is monitored at a rate of 10 times per tracking window. Min window size is 500ms, therefore the min monitoring interval is 50ms. Max window size is 10s with monitoring interval of 1s. When activated psi monitor stays active for at least the duration of one tracking window to avoid repeated activations/deactivations when psi signal is bouncing. Notifications to the users are rate-limited to one per tracking window. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190319235619.260832-8-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Dennis Zhou Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi Acked-by: Caspar Zhang --- Documentation/accounting/psi.txt | 107 +++++++ include/linux/psi.h | 8 + include/linux/psi_types.h | 82 ++++- kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 71 ++++- kernel/sched/psi.c | 494 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 5 files changed, 742 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/psi.txt b/Documentation/accounting/psi.txt index 7e71c9c1d8e9..5cbe5659e3b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/accounting/psi.txt +++ b/Documentation/accounting/psi.txt @@ -63,6 +63,110 @@ as well as medium and long term trends. The total absolute stall time spikes which wouldn't necessarily make a dent in the time averages, or to average trends over custom time frames. +Monitoring for pressure thresholds +================================== + +Users can register triggers and use poll() to be woken up when resource +pressure exceeds certain thresholds. + +A trigger describes the maximum cumulative stall time over a specific +time window, e.g. 100ms of total stall time within any 500ms window to +generate a wakeup event. + +To register a trigger user has to open psi interface file under +/proc/pressure/ representing the resource to be monitored and write the +desired threshold and time window. The open file descriptor should be +used to wait for trigger events using select(), poll() or epoll(). +The following format is used: + +