a) waiting for a CPU (while being runnable)
b) completion of synchronous block I/O initiated by the task
c) swapping in pages
+d) memory reclaim
and makes these statistics available to userspace through
the taskstats interface.
include/linux/taskstats.h
for a description of the fields pertaining to delay accounting.
It will generally be in the form of counters returning the cumulative
-delay seen for cpu, sync block I/O, swapin etc.
+delay seen for cpu, sync block I/O, swapin, memory reclaim etc.
Taking the difference of two successive readings of a given
counter (say cpu_delay_total) for a task will give the delay
7876 92005750 100000000 24001500
IO count delay total
0 0
-MEM count delay total
+SWAP count delay total
+ 0 0
+RECLAIM count delay total
0 0
Get delays seen in executing a given simple command
6 4000250 4000000 0
IO count delay total
0 0
-MEM count delay total
+SWAP count delay total
+ 0 0
+RECLAIM count delay total
0 0