From: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Eugene Lubarsky <elubarsky.linux@gmail.com>,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, adobriyan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Introduce /proc/all/ to gather stats from all processes
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 01:03:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200813080327.GA604888@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ffc908a7-c94b-56e6-8bb6-c47c52747d77@gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 10:47:32PM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 8/12/20 1:51 AM, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> >
> > I rebased the task_diag patches on top of v5.8:
> > https://github.com/avagin/linux-task-diag/tree/v5.8-task-diag
>
> Thanks for updating the patches.
>
> >
> > /proc/pid files have three major limitations:
> > * Requires at least three syscalls per process per file
> > open(), read(), close()
> > * Variety of formats, mostly text based
> > The kernel spent time to encode binary data into a text format and
> > then tools like top and ps spent time to decode them back to a binary
> > format.
> > * Sometimes slow due to extra attributes
> > For example, /proc/PID/smaps contains a lot of useful informations
> > about memory mappings and memory consumption for each of them. But
> > even if we don't need memory consumption fields, the kernel will
> > spend time to collect this information.
>
> that's what I recall as well.
>
> >
> > More details and numbers are in this article:
> > https://avagin.github.io/how-fast-is-procfs
> >
> > This new interface doesn't have only one of these limitations, but
> > task_diag doesn't have all of them.
> >
> > And I compared how fast each of these interfaces:
> >
> > The test environment:
> > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40GHz
> > RAM: 16GB
> > kernel: v5.8 with task_diag and /proc/all patches.
> > 100K processes:
> > $ ps ax | wc -l
> > 10228
>
> 100k processes but showing 10k here??
I'm sure that one zero has been escaped from here. task_proc_all shows
a number of tasks too and it shows 100230.
>
> >
> > $ time cat /proc/all/status > /dev/null
> >
> > real 0m0.577s
> > user 0m0.017s
> > sys 0m0.559s
> >
> > task_proc_all is used to read /proc/pid/status for all tasks:
> > https://github.com/avagin/linux-task-diag/blob/master/tools/testing/selftests/task_diag/task_proc_all.c
> >
> > $ time ./task_proc_all status
> > tasks: 100230
> >
Thanks,
Andrei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-13 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-10 14:58 [RFC PATCH 0/5] Introduce /proc/all/ to gather stats from all processes Eugene Lubarsky
2020-08-10 14:58 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] fs/proc: Introduce /proc/all/stat Eugene Lubarsky
2020-08-10 14:58 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] fs/proc: Introduce /proc/all/statm Eugene Lubarsky
2020-08-10 14:58 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] fs/proc: Introduce /proc/all/status Eugene Lubarsky
2020-08-10 14:58 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] fs/proc: Introduce /proc/all/io Eugene Lubarsky
2020-08-10 14:58 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] fs/proc: Introduce /proc/all/statx Eugene Lubarsky
2020-08-10 15:04 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] Introduce /proc/all/ to gather stats from all processes Greg KH
2020-08-10 15:27 ` Eugene Lubarsky
2020-08-10 15:41 ` Greg KH
2020-08-25 9:59 ` Eugene Lubarsky
2020-08-12 7:51 ` Andrei Vagin
2020-08-13 4:47 ` David Ahern
2020-08-13 8:03 ` Andrei Vagin [this message]
2020-08-13 15:01 ` Eugene Lubarsky
2020-08-20 17:41 ` Andrei Vagin
2020-08-25 10:00 ` Eugene Lubarsky
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