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More concise PSI metrics description
Co-authored-by: James Thompson <[email protected]>
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The metric represents the percentage of time that tasks were stalled on a given resource
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over the specified time window.
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The "some" stall type indicates at least some tasks are stalled on the resource.
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The "full" stall type indicates all non-idle tasks are stalled simultaneously, representing
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a more severe state where the system is thrashing and CPU cycles are wasted.
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PSI is available on Linux systems with kernel 4.20 or later and requires CONFIG_PSI=y.
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CPU "full" stall is reported as zero at the system level for backward compatibility (available since 5.13).
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Values are percentages in the range [0, 100]. The ratios are tracked over 10-second, 60-second,
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The ratios are tracked over 10-second, 60-second,
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and 300-second windows.
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See [Linux kernel PSI documentation](https://docs.kernel.org/accounting/psi.html) and
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of latency spikes that wouldn't necessarily make a noticeable impact on time averages.
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It also enables calculating average trends over custom time frames.
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The "some" stall type indicates at least some tasks are stalled on the resource.
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The "full" stall type indicates all non-idle tasks are stalled simultaneously.
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PSI is available on Linux systems with kernel 4.20 or later and requires CONFIG_PSI=y.
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CPU "full" stall is reported as zero at the system level for backward compatibility (available since 5.13).
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