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PSI - Pressure Stall Information
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:Date: April, 2018
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:Author: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
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When CPU, memory or IO devices are contended, workloads experience
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latency spikes, throughput losses, and run the risk of OOM kills.
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Without an accurate measure of such contention, users are forced to
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either play it safe and under-utilize their hardware resources, or
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roll the dice and frequently suffer the disruptions resulting from
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excessive overcommit.
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The psi feature identifies and quantifies the disruptions caused by
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such resource crunches and the time impact it has on complex workloads
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or even entire systems.
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Having an accurate measure of productivity losses caused by resource
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scarcity aids users in sizing workloads to hardware--or provisioning
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hardware according to workload demand.
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As psi aggregates this information in realtime, systems can be managed
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dynamically using techniques such as load shedding, migrating jobs to
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other systems or data centers, or strategically pausing or killing low
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priority or restartable batch jobs.
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This allows maximizing hardware utilization without sacrificing
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workload health or risking major disruptions such as OOM kills.
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Pressure interface
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Pressure information for each resource is exported through the
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respective file in /proc/pressure/ -- cpu, memory, and io.
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The format for CPU is as such:
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some avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=0
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and for memory and IO:
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some avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=0
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full avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=0
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The "some" line indicates the share of time in which at least some
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tasks are stalled on a given resource.
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The "full" line indicates the share of time in which all non-idle
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tasks are stalled on a given resource simultaneously. In this state
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actual CPU cycles are going to waste, and a workload that spends
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extended time in this state is considered to be thrashing. This has
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severe impact on performance, and it's useful to distinguish this
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situation from a state where some tasks are stalled but the CPU is
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still doing productive work. As such, time spent in this subset of the
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stall state is tracked separately and exported in the "full" averages.
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The ratios (in %) are tracked as recent trends over ten, sixty, and
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three hundred second windows, which gives insight into short term events
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as well as medium and long term trends. The total absolute stall time
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(in us) is tracked and exported as well, to allow detection of latency
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spikes which wouldn't necessarily make a dent in the time averages,
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or to average trends over custom time frames.
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Cgroup2 interface
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In a system with a CONFIG_CGROUP=y kernel and the cgroup2 filesystem
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mounted, pressure stall information is also tracked for tasks grouped
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into cgroups. Each subdirectory in the cgroupfs mountpoint contains
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cpu.pressure, memory.pressure, and io.pressure files; the format is
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the same as the /proc/pressure/ files.
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