Linux调度器性能分析 - 2

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SCHEDSTATS Perf Counters - Overview

1. What is the SCHEDSTATS?

SCHEDSTATS is a kernel debug feature which allows scheduler exports its pre-defined performance counters to user space. We can do following things by collecting and analyzing these perf counters,

• Debug or tune scheduler
• Debug or tune specific application or benchmark from scheduling perspective

2. How could we access SCHEDSTATS counters?

When SCHEDSTATS is enabled, scheduler statistics could be accessed by following ways,

• Three proc files exported by SCHEDSTATS code

  /proc/schedstat, /proc/[pid]/schedstat, /proc/[pid]/sched

  Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt file has the full description for file format. We can write user space tools to read and process the proc files.

• pre-defined kernel trace points

  Kernel trace points could be used by dynamic tracing tools, such as systemtap, perf. So far, in Linux 4.1, there are 4 sched_stat_* trace points defined by SCHEDSTATS code, there are 4 sched_stat_* trace points defined by SCHEDSTATS code.

  # perf list | grep sched_stat_
    sched:sched_stat_wait              [Tracepoint event]
    sched:sched_stat_sleep             [Tracepoint event]
    sched:sched_stat_iowait            [Tracepoint event]
    sched:sched_stat_blocked           [Tracepoint event]
    sched:sched_stat_runtime           [Tracepoint event] >>>> Not a SCHEDSTAT trace point
  

  Linux perf tool, record, report, script sub-commands could be used for getting system wide or per-task statistics.

• sleep profiler when SCHEDSTATS is enabled

  This needs readprofile command installed in user space. The usage of readprofile could be found from