psi: clarify the units used in pressure files

Waiman-Long · torvalds · commit be87ab0afd68 · 2019-04-05T16:02:31.000-10:00
The output of the PSI files show a bunch of numbers with no unit. The psi.txt documentation file also does not indicate what units are used. One can only find out by looking at the source code. The units are percentage for the averages and useconds for the total. Make the information easier to find by documenting the units in psi.txt. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190402193810.3450-1-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/psi.txt b/Documentation/accounting/psi.txt
@@ -56,12 +56,12 @@ situation from a state where some tasks are stalled but the CPU is
 still doing productive work. As such, time spent in this subset of the
 stall state is tracked separately and exported in the "full" averages.
 
-The ratios are tracked as recent trends over ten, sixty, and three
-hundred second windows, which gives insight into short term events as
-well as medium and long term trends. The total absolute stall time is
-tracked and exported as well, to allow detection of latency spikes
-which wouldn't necessarily make a dent in the time averages, or to
-average trends over custom time frames.
+The ratios (in %) are tracked as recent trends over ten, sixty, and
+three hundred second windows, which gives insight into short term events
+as well as medium and long term trends. The total absolute stall time
+(in us) is tracked and exported as well, to allow detection of latency
+spikes which wouldn't necessarily make a dent in the time averages,
+or to average trends over custom time frames.
 
 Cgroup2 interface
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