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[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: sync block I/O and swapin delay collection
authorShailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Fri, 14 Jul 2006 07:24:37 +0000 (00:24 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Sat, 15 Jul 2006 04:53:56 +0000 (21:53 -0700)
commit0ff922452df86f3e9a2c6f705c4588ec62d096a7
treeac84041bfb63f12d0e2db733c46b2cd2438b4882
parentca74e92b4698276b6696f15a801759f50944f387
[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: sync block I/O and swapin delay collection

Unlike earlier iterations of the delay accounting patches, now delays are only
collected for the actual I/O waits rather than try and cover the delays seen
in I/O submission paths.

Account separately for block I/O delays incurred as a result of swapin page
faults whose frequency can be affected by the task/process' rss limit.  Hence
swapin delays can act as feedback for rss limit changes independent of I/O
priority changes.

Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de>
Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
include/linux/delayacct.h
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/delayacct.c
kernel/sched.c
mm/memory.c