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UPSTREAM: psi: clarify the Kconfig text for the default-disable option
The current help text caused some confusion in online forums about
whether or not to default-enable or default-disable psi in vendor
kernels. This is because it doesn't communicate the reason for why we
made this setting configurable in the first place: that the overhead is
non-zero in an artificial scheduler stress test.
Since this isn't representative of real workloads, and the effect was
not measurable in scheduler-heavy real world applications such as the
webservers and memcache installations at Facebook, it's fair to point
out that this is a pretty cautious option to select.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190129233617.16767-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 7b2489d37e)
Bug: 127712811
Test: lmkd in PSI mode
Change-Id: I5d0cb901562fd74c82d9d211544745b802776d8a
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
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@ -518,6 +518,17 @@ config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
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per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the
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kernel commandline during boot.
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This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep
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paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect
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common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as
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webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial
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scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench.
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If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be
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used for, say Y.
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Say N if unsure.
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endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting"
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config CPU_ISOLATION
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