Re: [RFC PATCH] driver: loop: introduce synchronized read for loop driver

Bart Van Assche
2025-09-23T16:30:18Z

On 9/22/25 8:50 PM, Zhaoyang Huang wrote:
> Yes, we have tried to solve this case from the above perspective. As
> to the scheduler, packing small tasks to one core(Big core in ARM)
> instead of spreading them is desired for power-saving reasons. To the
> number of kworker threads, it is upon current design which will create
> new work for each blkcg. According to ANDROID's current approach, each
> PID takes one cgroup and correspondingly a kworker thread which
> actually induces this scenario.

More cgroups means more overhead from cgroup-internal tasks, e.g.
accumulating statistics. How about requesting to the Android core team
to review the approach of associating one cgroup with each PID? I'm
wondering whether the approach of one cgroup per aggregate profile
(SCHED_SP_BACKGROUND, SCHED_SP_FOREGROUND, ...) would work.

Thanks,

Bart.