The patch titled sched: few scheduler event counters has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-only-sched-add-a-few-scheduler-event-counters.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: sched: few scheduler event counters From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> Add a few counters to be able to see how the softirq affects the scheduler. This patch should not go into mainline and maybe also not into mm. (akpm: heh. Bad boy) New counters in /proc/vmstat sched_tick_balance Ticks that required invokation of the softirq sched_tick_no_balance Ticks that did not require the softirq sched_load_balance # invocations of load_balance(). sched_balance_softirq # of softirq executions sched_balance_running # of times that serialization prevented load balancing of a sched_domain. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/vmstat.h | 2 ++ kernel/sched.c | 12 ++++++++++-- mm/vmstat.c | 5 +++++ 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/vmstat.h~mm-only-sched-add-a-few-scheduler-event-counters include/linux/vmstat.h --- a/include/linux/vmstat.h~mm-only-sched-add-a-few-scheduler-event-counters +++ a/include/linux/vmstat.h @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PS FOR_ALL_ZONES(PGSCAN_DIRECT), PGINODESTEAL, SLABS_SCANNED, KSWAPD_STEAL, KSWAPD_INODESTEAL, PAGEOUTRUN, ALLOCSTALL, PGROTATED, + SCHED_TICK_NO_BALANCE, SCHED_TICK_BALANCE, SCHED_BALANCE_SOFTIRQ, + SCHED_LOAD_BALANCE, SCHED_BALANCE_RUNNING, NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS }; diff -puN kernel/sched.c~mm-only-sched-add-a-few-scheduler-event-counters kernel/sched.c --- a/kernel/sched.c~mm-only-sched-add-a-few-scheduler-event-counters +++ a/kernel/sched.c @@ -2897,6 +2897,8 @@ static void run_rebalance_domains(struct /* Earliest time when we have to call run_rebalance_domains again */ unsigned long next_balance = jiffies + 60*HZ; + __count_vm_event(SCHED_BALANCE_SOFTIRQ); + for_each_domain(this_cpu, sd) { if (!(sd->flags & SD_LOAD_BALANCE)) continue; @@ -2911,11 +2913,14 @@ static void run_rebalance_domains(struct interval = 1; if (sd->flags & SD_SERIALIZE) { - if (!spin_trylock(&balancing)) + if (!spin_trylock(&balancing)) { + __count_vm_event(SCHED_BALANCE_RUNNING); goto out; + } } if (time_after_eq(jiffies, sd->last_balance + interval)) { + __count_vm_event(SCHED_LOAD_BALANCE); if (load_balance(this_cpu, this_rq, sd, idle)) { /* * We've pulled tasks over so either we're no @@ -3185,8 +3190,11 @@ void scheduler_tick(void) task_running_tick(rq, p); #ifdef CONFIG_SMP update_load(rq); - if (time_after_eq(jiffies, rq->next_balance)) + if (time_after_eq(jiffies, rq->next_balance)) { + __count_vm_event(SCHED_TICK_BALANCE); raise_softirq(SCHED_SOFTIRQ); + } + __count_vm_event(SCHED_TICK_NO_BALANCE); #endif } diff -puN mm/vmstat.c~mm-only-sched-add-a-few-scheduler-event-counters mm/vmstat.c --- a/mm/vmstat.c~mm-only-sched-add-a-few-scheduler-event-counters +++ a/mm/vmstat.c @@ -509,6 +509,11 @@ static char *vmstat_text[] = { "allocstall", "pgrotated", + "sched_tick_no_balance", + "sched_tick_balance", + "sched_balance_softirq", + "sched_load_balance", + "sched_balance_running", #endif }; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from clameter@xxxxxxx are memory-page-alloc-minor-cleanups.patch memory-page-alloc-minor-cleanups-fix.patch get-rid-of-zone_table.patch deal-with-cases-of-zone_dma-meaning-the-first-zone.patch get-rid-of-zone_table-fix-3.patch introduce-config_zone_dma.patch optional-zone_dma-in-the-vm.patch optional-zone_dma-in-the-vm-no-gfp_dma-check-in-the-slab-if-no-config_zone_dma-is-set.patch optional-zone_dma-in-the-vm-no-gfp_dma-check-in-the-slab-if-no-config_zone_dma-is-set-reduce-config_zone_dma-ifdefs.patch optional-zone_dma-for-ia64.patch remove-zone_dma-remains-from-parisc.patch remove-zone_dma-remains-from-sh-sh64.patch set-config_zone_dma-for-arches-with-generic_isa_dma.patch zoneid-fix-up-calculations-for-zoneid_pgshift.patch radix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside.patch sched-domain-move-sched-group-allocations-to-percpu-area.patch sched-avoid-taking-rq-lock-in-wake_priority_sleeper.patch sched-remove-staggering-of-load-balancing.patch sched-disable-interrupts-for-locking-in-load_balance.patch sched-extract-load-calculation-from-rebalance_tick.patch sched-move-idle-status-calculation-into-rebalance_tick.patch sched-use-softirq-for-load-balancing.patch sched-call-tasklet-less-frequently.patch sched-add-option-to-serialize-load-balancing.patch mm-only-sched-add-a-few-scheduler-event-counters.patch zvc-support-nr_slab_reclaimable--nr_slab_unreclaimable-swap_prefetch.patch reduce-max_nr_zones-swap_prefetch-remove-incorrect-use-of-zone_highmem.patch numa-add-zone_to_nid-function-swap_prefetch.patch readahead-state-based-method-aging-accounting.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html