From b663a79c191508f27cd885224b592a878c0ba0f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maxim Uvarov Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:40:48 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Shailabh Nagar Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Jay Lan Cc: Jonathan Lim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/taskstats.h | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/taskstats.h b/include/linux/taskstats.h index a46104a..dce1ed204 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 */ }; -- cgit v1.1