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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: brookxu <brookxu.cn@gmail.com>
Cc: bsingharora@gmail.com, juri.lelli@redhat.com,
	vincent.guittot@linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] delayacct: convert task->delays to a object
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 10:43:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231009084341.GA14330@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5dba07eb-88f0-bf84-494e-b979f32ad44d@gmail.com>

On Sun, Oct 08, 2023 at 07:10:01PM +0800, brookxu wrote:

> > > @@ -1331,7 +1332,7 @@ struct task_struct {
> > >   	struct page_frag		task_frag;
> > >   #ifdef CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT
> > > -	struct task_delay_info		*delays;
> > > +	struct task_delay_info		delays;
> > >   #endif
> > Yeah, no.

> Yes, this way will increase about 80 bytes for task_struct, about 0.85% of
> size of task_struct, I think this just like sched_statistics, so that can
> better support dynamically enable through sysctl.

But it's 80 bytes 'nobody' will use. And arguably we should do the same
with schedstats, that's default disabled and again, that's per-task
storage nobody ever uses.

Per this argument we can grow task_struct indefinitely until it
collapses in on itself by the sheer weight of it's information density.
Every additional field will be a smaller fraction of the total.

Yes, it makes it all a little more cumbersome, but we should really not
burden everybody with the load of some.

Surely there is another solution... ?

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-09  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-08 10:49 [PATCH 0/3] delayacct: optimization & code simplify brookxu.cn
2023-10-08 10:49 ` [PATCH 1/3] delayacct: introduce delayacct_enabled() to simplify implement brookxu.cn
2023-10-08 10:56   ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-10-08 11:03     ` brookxu
2023-10-08 10:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] delayacct: convert task->delays to a object brookxu.cn
2023-10-08 10:58   ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-10-08 11:10     ` brookxu
2023-10-09  8:43       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2023-10-09 10:29         ` brookxu
2023-10-09 14:17           ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-10-09 11:38         ` brookxu
2023-10-09 14:18           ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-10-08 13:42   ` kernel test robot
2023-10-08 15:47   ` kernel test robot
2023-10-08 16:18   ` kernel test robot
2023-10-08 10:49 ` [PATCH 3/3] delayacct: remove delayacct_on to simplify the code brookxu.cn

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