Re: [RFC PATCH] cpuacct: per-cgroup utime/stime statistics - v1

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:12:08 +0530
Bharata B Rao <bharata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Based on the comments received during my last post
> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/25/129), here is a fresh attempt
> to get per-cgroup utime/stime statistics as part of cpuacct controller.
> 
> This patch adds a new file cpuacct.stat which displays two stats:
> utime and stime. I wasn't too sure about the usefulness of providing
> per-cgroup guest and steal times and hence not including them here.
> 
> Note that I am using percpu_counter for collecting these two stats.
> Since percpu_counter subsystem doesn't protect the readside, readers could
> theoritically obtain incorrect values for these stats on 32bit systems.

Using percpu_counter_read() means that .. but is it okay to ignore "batch"
number ? (see FBC_BATCH)


> I hope occasional wrong values is not too much of a concern for
> statistics like this. If it is a problem, we have to either fix
> percpu_counter or do it all by ourselves as Kamezawa attempted
> for cpuacct.usage (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/4/14)
> 
Hmm, percpu_counter_sum() is bad ?

BTW, I'm not sure but don't we need special handling if
CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y ?


Thanks,
-Kame


> Regards,
> Bharata.
> 
> cpuacct: Add stime and utime statistics
> 
> Add per-cgroup cpuacct controller statistics like the system and user
> time consumed by the group of tasks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/cgroups/cpuacct.txt |    8 +++
>  kernel/sched.c                    |   87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  2 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cpuacct.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cpuacct.txt
> @@ -30,3 +30,11 @@ The above steps create a new group g1 an
>  process (bash) into it. CPU time consumed by this bash and its children
>  can be obtained from g1/cpuacct.usage and the same is accumulated in
>  /cgroups/cpuacct.usage also.
> +
> +cpuacct.stat file lists a few statistics which further divide the
> +CPU time obtained by the cgroup into user and system times. Currently
> +the following statistics are supported:
> +
> +utime: Time in milliseconds spent by tasks of the cgroup in user mode.
> +stime: Time in milliseconds spent by tasks of the cgroup in kernel mode.
> +
> --- a/kernel/sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
> @@ -1393,10 +1393,22 @@ iter_move_one_task(struct rq *this_rq, i
>  		   struct rq_iterator *iterator);
>  #endif
>  
> +/* Time spent by the tasks of the cpu accounting group executing in ... */
> +enum cpuacct_stat_index {
> +	CPUACCT_STAT_UTIME,	/* ... user mode */
> +	CPUACCT_STAT_STIME,	/* ... kernel mode */
> +
> +	CPUACCT_STAT_NSTATS,
> +};
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT
>  static void cpuacct_charge(struct task_struct *tsk, u64 cputime);
> +static void cpuacct_update_stats(struct task_struct *tsk,
> +		enum cpuacct_stat_index idx, int val);
>  #else
>  static inline void cpuacct_charge(struct task_struct *tsk, u64 cputime) {}
> +static void cpuacct_update_stats(struct task_struct *tsk,
> +		enum cpuacct_stat_index idx, int val) {}
>  #endif
>  
>  static inline void inc_cpu_load(struct rq *rq, unsigned long load)
> @@ -4182,6 +4194,8 @@ void account_user_time(struct task_struc
>  		cpustat->nice = cputime64_add(cpustat->nice, tmp);
>  	else
>  		cpustat->user = cputime64_add(cpustat->user, tmp);
> +
> +	cpuacct_update_stats(p, CPUACCT_STAT_UTIME, cputime_to_msecs(cputime));
>  	/* Account for user time used */
>  	acct_update_integrals(p);
>  }
> @@ -4243,6 +4257,8 @@ void account_system_time(struct task_str
>  	else
>  		cpustat->system = cputime64_add(cpustat->system, tmp);
>  
> +	cpuacct_update_stats(p, CPUACCT_STAT_STIME, cputime_to_msecs(cputime));
> +
>  	/* Account for system time used */
>  	acct_update_integrals(p);
>  }
> @@ -9438,6 +9454,7 @@ struct cpuacct {
>  	struct cgroup_subsys_state css;
>  	/* cpuusage holds pointer to a u64-type object on every cpu */
>  	u64 *cpuusage;
> +	struct percpu_counter cpustat[CPUACCT_STAT_NSTATS];
>  	struct cpuacct *parent;
>  };
>  
> @@ -9462,20 +9479,33 @@ static struct cgroup_subsys_state *cpuac
>  	struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp)
>  {
>  	struct cpuacct *ca = kzalloc(sizeof(*ca), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	int i;
>  
>  	if (!ca)
> -		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> +		goto out1;
>  
>  	ca->cpuusage = alloc_percpu(u64);
> -	if (!ca->cpuusage) {
> -		kfree(ca);
> -		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> -	}
> +	if (!ca->cpuusage)
> +		goto out2;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < CPUACCT_STAT_NSTATS; i++)
> +		if (percpu_counter_init(&ca->cpustat[i], 0))
> +			goto out3;
>  
>  	if (cgrp->parent)
>  		ca->parent = cgroup_ca(cgrp->parent);
>  
>  	return &ca->css;
> +
> +out3:
> +	i--;
> +	while (i-- >= 0)
> +		percpu_counter_destroy(&ca->cpustat[i]);
> +	free_percpu(ca->cpuusage);
> +out2:
> +	kfree(ca);
> +out1:
> +	return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>  }
>  
>  /* destroy an existing cpu accounting group */
> @@ -9483,7 +9513,10 @@ static void
>  cpuacct_destroy(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp)
>  {
>  	struct cpuacct *ca = cgroup_ca(cgrp);
> +	int i;
>  
> +	for (i = 0; i < CPUACCT_STAT_NSTATS; i++)
> +		percpu_counter_destroy(&ca->cpustat[i]);
>  	free_percpu(ca->cpuusage);
>  	kfree(ca);
>  }
> @@ -9570,6 +9603,28 @@ static int cpuacct_percpu_seq_read(struc
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static const struct cpuacct_stat_desc {
> +	const char *msg;
> +	u64 unit;
> +} cpuacct_stat_desc[] = {
> +	[CPUACCT_STAT_UTIME] = { "utime", 1, },
> +	[CPUACCT_STAT_STIME] = { "stime", 1, },
> +};
> +
> +static int cpuacct_stats_show(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft,
> +		struct cgroup_map_cb *cb)
> +{
> +	struct cpuacct *ca = cgroup_ca(cgrp);
> +	int i;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < CPUACCT_STAT_NSTATS; i++) {
> +		s64 val = percpu_counter_read(&ca->cpustat[i]);
> +		val *= cpuacct_stat_desc[i].unit;
> +		cb->fill(cb, cpuacct_stat_desc[i].msg, val);
> +	}
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static struct cftype files[] = {
>  	{
>  		.name = "usage",
> @@ -9580,7 +9635,10 @@ static struct cftype files[] = {
>  		.name = "usage_percpu",
>  		.read_seq_string = cpuacct_percpu_seq_read,
>  	},
> -
> +	{
> +		.name = "stat",
> +		.read_map = cpuacct_stats_show,
> +	},
>  };
>  
>  static int cpuacct_populate(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp)
> @@ -9610,6 +9668,23 @@ static void cpuacct_charge(struct task_s
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * Account the system/user time to the task's accounting group.
> + */
> +static void cpuacct_update_stats(struct task_struct *tsk,
> +		enum cpuacct_stat_index idx, int val)
> +{
> +	struct cpuacct *ca;
> +
> +	if (!cpuacct_subsys.active)
> +		return;
> +
> +	ca = task_ca(tsk);
> +
> +	for (; ca; ca = ca->parent)
> +		percpu_counter_add(&ca->cpustat[idx], val);
> +}
> +
>  struct cgroup_subsys cpuacct_subsys = {
>  	.name = "cpuacct",
>  	.create = cpuacct_create,
> 

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