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From: Tom Hromatka <tom.hromatka@oracle.com>
To: tom.hromatka@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@kernel.org,
	adobriyan@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] /proc/stat: Simplify iowait and idle calculations when cpu is offline
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 15:05:49 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200610210549.61193-3-tom.hromatka@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200610210549.61193-1-tom.hromatka@oracle.com>

A customer reported that when a cpu goes offline, the iowait and idle
times reported in /proc/stat will sometimes spike.  This is being
caused by a different data source being used for these values when a
cpu is offline.

Prior to this patch:

put the system under heavy load so that there is little idle time

	       user nice system    idle iowait
	cpu  109515   17  32111  220686    607

take cpu1 offline

	       user nice system    idle iowait
	cpu  113742   17  32721  220724    612

bring cpu1 back online

	       user nice system    idle iowait
	cpu  118332   17  33430  220687    607

To prevent this, let's use the same data source whether a cpu is
online or not.

With this patch:

put the system under heavy load so that there is little idle time

	       user nice system    idle iowait
	cpu   14096   16   4646  157687    426

take cpu1 offline

	       user nice system    idle iowait
	cpu   21614   16   7179  157687    426

bring cpu1 back online

	       user nice system    idle iowait
	cpu   27362   16   9555  157688    426

Signed-off-by: Tom Hromatka <tom.hromatka@oracle.com>
---
 fs/proc/stat.c | 24 ++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/stat.c b/fs/proc/stat.c
index 46b3293015fe..35b92539e711 100644
--- a/fs/proc/stat.c
+++ b/fs/proc/stat.c
@@ -47,32 +47,20 @@ static u64 get_iowait_time(struct kernel_cpustat *kcs, int cpu)
 
 static u64 get_idle_time(struct kernel_cpustat *kcs, int cpu)
 {
-	u64 idle, idle_usecs = -1ULL;
+	u64 idle, idle_usecs;
 
-	if (cpu_online(cpu))
-		idle_usecs = get_cpu_idle_time_us(cpu, NULL);
-
-	if (idle_usecs == -1ULL)
-		/* !NO_HZ or cpu offline so we can rely on cpustat.idle */
-		idle = kcs->cpustat[CPUTIME_IDLE];
-	else
-		idle = idle_usecs * NSEC_PER_USEC;
+	idle_usecs = get_cpu_idle_time_us(cpu, NULL);
+	idle = idle_usecs * NSEC_PER_USEC;
 
 	return idle;
 }
 
 static u64 get_iowait_time(struct kernel_cpustat *kcs, int cpu)
 {
-	u64 iowait, iowait_usecs = -1ULL;
-
-	if (cpu_online(cpu))
-		iowait_usecs = get_cpu_iowait_time_us(cpu, NULL);
+	u64 iowait, iowait_usecs;
 
-	if (iowait_usecs == -1ULL)
-		/* !NO_HZ or cpu offline so we can rely on cpustat.iowait */
-		iowait = kcs->cpustat[CPUTIME_IOWAIT];
-	else
-		iowait = iowait_usecs * NSEC_PER_USEC;
+	iowait_usecs = get_cpu_iowait_time_us(cpu, NULL);
+	iowait = iowait_usecs * NSEC_PER_USEC;
 
 	return iowait;
 }
-- 
2.25.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-10 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-10 21:05 [PATCH 0/2] iowait and idle fixes in /proc/stat Tom Hromatka
2020-06-10 21:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] tick-sched: Do not clear the iowait and idle times Tom Hromatka
2020-06-10 21:05 ` Tom Hromatka [this message]
2020-07-14 18:55 ` [PATCH 0/2] iowait and idle fixes in /proc/stat Tom Hromatka

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