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From: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
To: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Pavan Kondeti <quic_pkondeti@quicinc.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	quic_charante@quicinc.com
Subject: Re: PSI idle-shutoff
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:20:34 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221012062034.486-1-hdanton@sina.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJuCfpG=bADguJWdxV4ZhTze9fmKP2bhsbf0xzbd06Fhr4_U5w@mail.gmail.com>

On 11 Oct 2022 10:11:58 -0700 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
>On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 4:38 AM Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> wrote:
>>
>> Given activities on remote CPUs, can you specify what prevents psi_avgs_work
>> from being scheduled on remote CPUs if for example the local CPU has been
>> idle for a second?
> 
> I'm not a scheduler expert but I can imagine some work that finished
> running on a big core A and generated some activity since the last
> time psi_avgs_work executed.  With no other activity the next
> psi_avgs_work could be scheduled on a small core B to conserve power.

Given core A and B, nothing prevents.

> There might be other cases involving cpuset limitation changes or cpu
> offlining but I didn't think too hard about these. The bottom line, I
> don't think we should be designing mechanisms which rely on
> assumptions about how tasks will be scheduled. Even if these

The tasks here makes me guess that we are on different pages - scheduling
work has little to do with how tasks are scheduled, and is no more than
queuing work on the system_wq in the case of psi_avgs_work,

> assumptions are correct today they might change in the future and
> things will break in unexpected places.

with nothing assumed.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-12  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20220913140817.GA9091@hu-pkondeti-hyd.qualcomm.com>
2022-10-10 10:57 ` PSI idle-shutoff Hillf Danton
2022-10-10 21:16   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2022-10-11 11:38     ` Hillf Danton
2022-10-11 17:11       ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2022-10-12  6:20         ` Hillf Danton [this message]
2022-10-12 15:40           ` Suren Baghdasaryan

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