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authorBharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2008-11-10 20:41:13 +0530
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-11-11 12:13:28 +0100
commit934352f214b3251eb0793c1209d346595a661d80 (patch)
tree375ac56485c20f7b7cf783c3ca2980a76dc94fce /Documentation
parentff9b48c3598732926fa09afd7f526981c32a48cc (diff)
sched: add hierarchical accounting to cpu accounting controller
Impact: improve CPU time accounting of tasks under the cpu accounting controller Add hierarchical accounting to cpu accounting controller and include cpuacct documentation. Currently, while charging the task's cputime to its accounting group, the accounting group hierarchy isn't updated. This patch charges the cputime of a task to its accounting group and all its parent accounting groups. Reported-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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+CPU Accounting Controller
+-------------------------
+
+The CPU accounting controller is used to group tasks using cgroups and
+account the CPU usage of these groups of tasks.
+
+The CPU accounting controller supports multi-hierarchy groups. An accounting
+group accumulates the CPU usage of all of its child groups and the tasks
+directly present in its group.
+
+Accounting groups can be created by first mounting the cgroup filesystem.
+
+# mkdir /cgroups
+# mount -t cgroup -ocpuacct none /cgroups
+
+With the above step, the initial or the parent accounting group
+becomes visible at /cgroups. At bootup, this group includes all the
+tasks in the system. /cgroups/tasks lists the tasks in this cgroup.
+/cgroups/cpuacct.usage gives the CPU time (in nanoseconds) obtained by
+this group which is essentially the CPU time obtained by all the tasks
+in the system.
+
+New accounting groups can be created under the parent group /cgroups.
+
+# cd /cgroups
+# mkdir g1
+# echo $$ > g1
+
+The above steps create a new group g1 and move the current shell
+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.