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authorMaxim Uvarov <muvarov@ru.mvista.com>2007-07-16 02:40:48 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-16 12:05:46 -0400
commitb663a79c191508f27cd885224b592a878c0ba0f6 (patch)
tree270a0472bf1fb0c7323ecb60ec68e40d02dcb1b4 /include/linux/taskstats.h
parenta6c15c2b0fbfd5c0a84f5f0e1e3f20f85d2b8692 (diff)
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/linux/taskstats.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/taskstats.h5
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 @@
31 */ 31 */
32 32
33 33
34#define TASKSTATS_VERSION 4 34#define TASKSTATS_VERSION 5
35#define TS_COMM_LEN 32 /* should be >= TASK_COMM_LEN 35#define TS_COMM_LEN 32 /* should be >= TASK_COMM_LEN
36 * in linux/sched.h */ 36 * in linux/sched.h */
37 37
@@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ struct taskstats {
149 __u64 read_bytes; /* bytes of read I/O */ 149 __u64 read_bytes; /* bytes of read I/O */
150 __u64 write_bytes; /* bytes of write I/O */ 150 __u64 write_bytes; /* bytes of write I/O */
151 __u64 cancelled_write_bytes; /* bytes of cancelled write I/O */ 151 __u64 cancelled_write_bytes; /* bytes of cancelled write I/O */
152
153 __u64 nvcsw; /* voluntary_ctxt_switches */
154 __u64 nivcsw; /* nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches */
152}; 155};
153 156
154 157