linux-kernel-test/kernel
Shailabh Nagar f9fd8914c1 [PATCH] per-task delay accounting taskstats interface: control exit data through cpumasks
On systems with a large number of cpus, with even a modest rate of tasks
exiting per cpu, the volume of taskstats data sent on thread exit can
overflow a userspace listener's buffers.

One approach to avoiding overflow is to allow listeners to get data for a
limited and specific set of cpus.  By scaling the number of listeners
and/or the cpus they monitor, userspace can handle the statistical data
overload more gracefully.

In this patch, each listener registers to listen to a specific set of cpus
by specifying a cpumask.  The interest is recorded per-cpu.  When a task
exits on a cpu, its taskstats data is unicast to each listener interested
in that cpu.

Thanks to Andrew Morton for pointing out the various scalability and
general concerns of previous attempts and for suggesting this design.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-14 21:53:57 -07:00
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irq Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc 2006-07-03 15:28:34 -07:00
power [PATCH] remove kernel/power/pm.c:pm_unregister_all() 2006-07-12 16:09:08 -07:00
time [PATCH] time: rename clocksource functions 2006-06-26 09:58:21 -07:00
.gitignore gitignore: ignore more generated files 2006-01-03 11:35:26 +01:00
acct.c [PATCH] Fix sighand->siglock usage in kernel/acct.c 2006-07-14 21:53:54 -07:00
audit.c [NETLINK]: Encapsulate eff_cap usage within security framework. 2006-06-29 16:57:55 -07:00
audit.h [PATCH] add rule filterkey 2006-07-01 05:43:06 -04:00
auditfilter.c [PATCH] audit syscall classes 2006-07-01 07:44:10 -04:00
auditsc.c [PATCH] audit: support for object context filters 2006-07-01 05:44:19 -04:00
capability.c [PATCH] sched: cleanup, remove task_t, convert to struct task_struct 2006-07-03 15:27:11 -07:00
compat.c [PATCH] N32 sigset and __COMPAT_ENDIAN_SWAP__ 2006-06-25 10:01:15 -07:00
configs.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
cpu.c [PATCH] cpu hotplug: make [un]register_cpu_notifier init time only 2006-06-27 17:32:41 -07:00
cpuset.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
delayacct.c [PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: /proc export of aggregated block I/O delays 2006-07-14 21:53:57 -07:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
exit.c [PATCH] per-task delay accounting taskstats interface: control exit data through cpumasks 2006-07-14 21:53:57 -07:00
extable.c [PATCH] symbol_put_addr() locks kernel 2006-05-15 11:20:55 -07:00
fork.c [PATCH] delay accounting taskstats interface send tgid once 2006-07-14 21:53:57 -07:00
futex_compat.c [PATCH] pi-futex: futex_lock_pi/futex_unlock_pi support 2006-06-27 17:32:47 -07:00
futex.c [PATCH] pi-futex: Validate futex type instead of oopsing 2006-07-10 13:24:18 -07:00
hrtimer.c [PATCH] sched: cleanup, remove task_t, convert to struct task_struct 2006-07-03 15:27:11 -07:00
itimer.c [PATCH] hrtimers: remove data field 2006-03-26 08:57:03 -08:00
kallsyms.c [PATCH] null-terminate over-long /proc/kallsyms symbols 2006-07-14 21:53:52 -07:00
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c [POWERPC] Add the use of the firmware soft-reset-nmi to kdump. 2006-06-28 15:18:52 +10:00
kfifo.c [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1 2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
kmod.c [PATCH] lockdep: annotate on-stack completions 2006-07-03 15:27:09 -07:00
kprobes.c [PATCH] Notify page fault call chain 2006-06-26 09:58:22 -07:00
ksysfs.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
kthread.c [PATCH] remove kernel/kthread.c:kthread_stop_sem() 2006-07-14 21:53:52 -07:00
lockdep_internals.h [PATCH] lockdep: core 2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
lockdep_proc.c [PATCH] lockdep: procfs 2006-07-03 15:27:04 -07:00
lockdep.c [PATCH] lockdep: core, reduce per-lock class-cache size 2006-07-10 13:24:14 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: taskstats interface 2006-07-14 21:53:56 -07:00
module.c [PATCH] null-terminate over-long /proc/kallsyms symbols 2006-07-14 21:53:52 -07:00
mutex-debug.c [PATCH] lockdep: prove mutex locking correctness 2006-07-03 15:27:04 -07:00
mutex-debug.h [PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging 2006-07-03 15:27:01 -07:00
mutex.c [PATCH] lockdep: prove mutex locking correctness 2006-07-03 15:27:04 -07:00
mutex.h [PATCH] lockdep: prove mutex locking correctness 2006-07-03 15:27:04 -07:00
panic.c [PATCH] lockdep: disable lock debugging when kernel state becomes untrusted 2006-07-10 13:24:27 -07:00
params.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
pid.c [PATCH] sched: cleanup, remove task_t, convert to struct task_struct 2006-07-03 15:27:11 -07:00
posix-cpu-timers.c [PATCH] arm_timer: remove a racy and obsolete PF_EXITING check 2006-06-17 10:52:13 -07:00
posix-timers.c [PATCH] hrtimers: remove data field 2006-03-26 08:57:03 -08:00
printk.c [PATCH] kernel/printk.c: EXPORT_SYMBOL_UNUSED 2006-07-10 13:24:17 -07:00
profile.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
ptrace.c [PATCH] sched: cleanup, remove task_t, convert to struct task_struct 2006-07-03 15:27:11 -07:00
rcupdate.c [PATCH] lockdep: locking init debugging improvement 2006-07-03 15:27:02 -07:00
rcutorture.c [PATCH] rcutorture: add call_rcu_bh() operations 2006-06-27 17:32:40 -07:00
relay.c [PATCH] relay: consolidate sendfile() and read() code 2006-03-23 19:58:45 +01:00
resource.c [PATCH] The scheduled unexport of insert_resource 2006-07-12 16:09:08 -07:00
rtmutex_common.h [PATCH] pi-futex: futex_lock_pi/futex_unlock_pi support 2006-06-27 17:32:47 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.c [PATCH] sched: cleanup, remove task_t, convert to struct task_struct 2006-07-03 15:27:11 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.h [PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging 2006-07-03 15:27:01 -07:00
rtmutex-tester.c [PATCH] Add try_to_freeze() to rt-test kthreads 2006-07-14 21:53:53 -07:00
rtmutex.c [PATCH] sched: cleanup, remove task_t, convert to struct task_struct 2006-07-03 15:27:11 -07:00
rtmutex.h [PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging 2006-07-03 15:27:01 -07:00
rwsem.c [PATCH] lockdep: prove rwsem locking correctness 2006-07-03 15:27:04 -07:00
sched.c [PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: cpu delay collection via schedstats 2006-07-14 21:53:56 -07:00
seccomp.c
signal.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial 2006-06-30 15:39:30 -07:00
softirq.c [PATCH] unexport open_softirq 2006-07-14 21:53:53 -07:00
softlockup.c [PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert initdata patch submitted for 2.6.17 2006-06-27 17:32:41 -07:00
spinlock.c [PATCH] lockdep: prove spinlock rwlock locking correctness 2006-07-03 15:27:04 -07:00
stacktrace.c [PATCH] lockdep: stacktrace subsystem, core 2006-07-03 15:27:02 -07:00
stop_machine.c [PATCH] revert "kthread: convert stop_machine into a kthread" 2006-07-03 21:25:20 -07:00
sys_ni.c [PATCH] sys_move_pages: 32bit support (i386, x86_64) 2006-06-23 07:42:53 -07:00
sys.c [PATCH] Fix prctl privilege escalation and suid_dumpable (CVE-2006-2451) 2006-07-12 12:50:25 -07:00
sysctl.c [PATCH] ZVC/zone_reclaim: Leave 1% of unmapped pagecache pages for file I/O 2006-07-03 15:26:59 -07:00
taskstats.c [PATCH] per-task delay accounting taskstats interface: control exit data through cpumasks 2006-07-14 21:53:57 -07:00
time.c [PATCH] Time: Introduce arch generic time accessors 2006-06-26 09:58:20 -07:00
timer.c [PATCH] improve timekeeping resume robustness 2006-07-14 21:53:54 -07:00
uid16.c [PATCH] Add more prevent_tail_call() 2006-04-19 16:27:18 -07:00
unwind.c [PATCH] x86_64: allow unwinder to build without module support 2006-06-26 10:48:18 -07:00
user.c [PATCH] selinux: add hooks for key subsystem 2006-06-22 15:05:55 -07:00
wait.c [PATCH] uninline init_waitqueue_head() 2006-07-10 13:24:25 -07:00
workqueue.c Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq 2006-07-04 14:00:26 -07:00