From 824f6d1997f534fd698b95d6dc6080313cd244e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suren Baghdasaryan Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:56:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] psi: introduce psi monitor 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. Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Change-Id: I3018b961dd1e679bb0c10287696d65b14aef30e9 Patch-mainline: linux-mm @ 03/19/2019, 23:56 Signed-off-by: Patrick Daly --- 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 b8ca28b60215..4fb40fe94828 100644 --- a/Documentation/accounting/psi.txt +++ b/Documentation/accounting/psi.txt @@ -63,6 +63,110 @@ tracked and exported as well, to allow detection of latency 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: + +