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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and
 IO
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 19:07:33 +0200
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To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>, Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com>, Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>, Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>, Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@sony.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com

On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 11:19:57AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> +static bool psi_update_stats(struct psi_group *group)
> +{
> +	u64 deltas[NR_PSI_STATES - 1] = { 0, };
> +	unsigned long missed_periods = 0;
> +	unsigned long nonidle_total = 0;
> +	u64 now, expires, period;
> +	int cpu;
> +	int s;
> +
> +	mutex_lock(&group->stat_lock);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Collect the per-cpu time buckets and average them into a
> +	 * single time sample that is normalized to wallclock time.
> +	 *
> +	 * For averaging, each CPU is weighted by its non-idle time in
> +	 * the sampling period. This eliminates artifacts from uneven
> +	 * loading, or even entirely idle CPUs.
> +	 *
> +	 * We don't need to synchronize against CPU hotplugging. If we
> +	 * see a CPU that's online and has samples, we incorporate it.
> +	 */
> +	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {

I'm still puzzled by this.. for 99% of the machines online == possible.
Why not always iterate possible and leave it at that? This is hardly a
fast path.