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| author | Maxim Uvarov <muvarov@ru.mvista.com> | 2007-07-16 08:40:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-16 18:05:46 +0200 |
| commit | b663a79c191508f27cd885224b592a878c0ba0f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 270a0472bf1fb0c7323ecb60ec68e40d02dcb1b4 /include | |
| parent | ext3/ext4: orphan list corruption due bad inode (diff) | |
| download | linux-b663a79c191508f27cd885224b592a878c0ba0f6.tar.xz linux-b663a79c191508f27cd885224b592a878c0ba0f6.zip | |
taskstats: add context-switch counters
Make available to the user the following task and process performance
statistics:
* Involuntary Context Switches (task_struct->nivcsw)
* Voluntary Context Switches (task_struct->nvcsw)
Statistics information is available from:
1. taskstats interface (Documentation/accounting/)
2. /proc/PID/status (task only).
This data is useful for detecting hyperactivity patterns between processes.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Maxim Uvarov <muvarov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Jonathan Lim <jlim@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/taskstats.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/taskstats.h b/include/linux/taskstats.h index a46104a28f66..dce1ed204972 100644 --- a/include/linux/taskstats.h +++ b/include/linux/taskstats.h @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ */ -#define TASKSTATS_VERSION 4 +#define TASKSTATS_VERSION 5 #define TS_COMM_LEN 32 /* should be >= TASK_COMM_LEN * in linux/sched.h */ @@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ struct taskstats { __u64 read_bytes; /* bytes of read I/O */ __u64 write_bytes; /* bytes of write I/O */ __u64 cancelled_write_bytes; /* bytes of cancelled write I/O */ + + __u64 nvcsw; /* voluntary_ctxt_switches */ + __u64 nivcsw; /* nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches */ }; |