Following up with some discusson from a few months back,
where it was proposed that ProcessTable is a better name.
This data structure is definitely not a list ... if it
was one-dimensional it'd be a set, but in practice it has
much more in common with a two-dimensional table.
The Process table is a familiar operating system concept
for many people too so it resonates a little in that way
as well.
This implements our concept of 'dynamic screens' in htop, with a
first use-case of pcp-htop displaying things like top-filesystem
and top-cgroups under new screen tabs. However the idea is more
general than use in pcp-htop and we've paved the way here for us
to collectively build mroe general tabular screens in core htop,
as well.
From the pcp-htop side of things, dynamic screens are configured
using text-based configuration files that define the mapping for
PCP metrics to columns (and metric instances to rows). Metrics
are defined either directly (via metric names) or indirectly via
PCP derived metric specifications. Value scaling and the units
displayed is automatic based on PCP metric units and data types.
This commit represents a collaborative effort of several months,
primarily between myself, Nathan and BenBE.
Signed-off-by: Sohaib Mohamed <sohaib.amhmd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@redhat.com>
Implements support for arbitrary Performance Co-Pilot
metrics with per-process instance domains to form new
htop columns. The column-to-metric mappings are setup
using configuration files which will be documented via
man pages as part of a follow-up commit.
We provide an initial set of column configurations so
as to provide new capabilities to pcp-htop: including
configs for containers, open fd counts, scheduler run
queue time, tcp/udp bytes/calls sent/recv, delay acct,
virtual machine guests, detailed virtual memory, swap.
Note there is a change to the configuration file path
resolution algorithm introduced for 'dynamic meters'.
First, look in any custom PCP_HTOP_DIR location. Then
iterate, in priority order, users home directory, then
local sysadmins files in /etc/pcp/htop, then readonly
configuration files below /usr/share/pcp/htop. This
final location becomes the preferred place for our own
shipped meter and column files.
The Settings file (htoprc) writing code is updated to
not using the numeric identifier for dynamic columns.
The same strategy used for dynamic meters is used here
where we write Dynamic(name) so the name can be setup
once more at start. Regular (static) columns writing
to htoprc - i.e. numerically indexed - is unchanged.
Nathan Scott
Sohaib Mohamed
Benny Baumann
Christian Göttsche