delayacct: Document task_delayacct sysctl
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Wed, 12 May 2021 11:40:35 +0000 (12:40 +0100)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tue, 18 May 2021 10:53:53 +0000 (12:53 +0200)
Update sysctl/kernel.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210512114035.GH3672@suse.de
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst

index 1d56a6b..ebd2f99 100644 (file)
@@ -1087,6 +1087,13 @@ Model available). If your platform happens to meet the
 requirements for EAS but you do not want to use it, change
 this value to 0.
 
+task_delayacct
+===============
+
+Enables/disables task delay accounting (see
+:doc:`accounting/delay-accounting.rst`). Enabling this feature incurs
+a small amount of overhead in the scheduler but is useful for debugging
+and performance tuning. It is required by some tools such as iotop.
 
 sched_schedstats
 ================