1. 03 Dec, 2007 12 commits
  2. 02 Dec, 2007 1 commit
    • Srivatsa Vaddagiri's avatar
      sched: cpu accounting controller (V2) · d842de87
      Srivatsa Vaddagiri authored
      Commit cfb52856 removed a useful feature for
      us, which provided a cpu accounting resource controller.  This feature would be
      useful if someone wants to group tasks only for accounting purpose and doesnt
      really want to exercise any control over their cpu consumption.
      
      The patch below reintroduces the feature. It is based on Paul Menage's
      original patch (Commit 62d0df64), with
      these differences:
      
              - Removed load average information. I felt it needs more thought (esp
      	  to deal with SMP and virtualized platforms) and can be added for
      	  2.6.25 after more discussions.
              - Convert group cpu usage to be nanosecond accurate (as rest of the cfs
      	  stats are) and invoke cpuacct_charge() from the respective scheduler
      	  classes
      	- Make accounting scalable on SMP systems by splitting the usage
      	  counter to be per-cpu
      	- Move the code from kernel/cpu_acct.c to kernel/sched.c (since the
      	  code is not big enough to warrant a new file and also this rightly
      	  needs to live inside the scheduler. Also things like accessing
      	  rq->lock while reading cpu usage becomes easier if the code lived in
      	  kernel/sched.c)
      
      The patch also modifies the cpu controller not to provide the same accounting
      information.
      Tested-by: default avatarBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      
       Tested the patches on top of 2.6.24-rc3. The patches work fine. Ran
       some simple tests like cpuspin (spin on the cpu), ran several tasks in
       the same group and timed them. Compared their time stamps with
       cpuacct.usage.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSrivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      d842de87
  3. 01 Dec, 2007 27 commits