writeback: account for time spent congestion_waited
There is strong evidence to indicate a lot of time is being spent in
congestion_wait(), some of it unnecessarily. This patch adds a tracepoint
for congestion_wait to record when congestion_wait() was called, how long
the timeout was for and how long it actually slept.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/trace/events/writeback.h b/include/trace/events/writeback.h
index 0bb01ab..d2b26546 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/writeback.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/writeback.h
@@ -151,6 +151,34 @@
DEFINE_WBC_EVENT(wbc_balance_dirty_wait);
DEFINE_WBC_EVENT(wbc_writepage);
+DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(writeback_congest_waited_template,
+
+ TP_PROTO(unsigned int usec_timeout, unsigned int usec_delayed),
+
+ TP_ARGS(usec_timeout, usec_delayed),
+
+ TP_STRUCT__entry(
+ __field( unsigned int, usec_timeout )
+ __field( unsigned int, usec_delayed )
+ ),
+
+ TP_fast_assign(
+ __entry->usec_timeout = usec_timeout;
+ __entry->usec_delayed = usec_delayed;
+ ),
+
+ TP_printk("usec_timeout=%u usec_delayed=%u",
+ __entry->usec_timeout,
+ __entry->usec_delayed)
+);
+
+DEFINE_EVENT(writeback_congest_waited_template, writeback_congestion_wait,
+
+ TP_PROTO(unsigned int usec_timeout, unsigned int usec_delayed),
+
+ TP_ARGS(usec_timeout, usec_delayed)
+);
+
#endif /* _TRACE_WRITEBACK_H */
/* This part must be outside protection */
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 65d4204..5562730 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -764,12 +764,17 @@
long congestion_wait(int sync, long timeout)
{
long ret;
+ unsigned long start = jiffies;
DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
wait_queue_head_t *wqh = &congestion_wqh[sync];
prepare_to_wait(wqh, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
ret = io_schedule_timeout(timeout);
finish_wait(wqh, &wait);
+
+ trace_writeback_congestion_wait(jiffies_to_usecs(timeout),
+ jiffies_to_usecs(jiffies - start));
+
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(congestion_wait);
