Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] sched: Fix irq accounting for CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 11:17:46AM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote:
> After enabling CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING to track IRQ pressure in our
> container environment, we encountered several user-visible behavioral
> changes:
> 
> - Interrupted IRQ/softirq time is not accounted for in the cpuacct cgroup
> 
>   This breaks userspace applications that rely on CPU usage data from
>   cgroups to monitor CPU pressure. This patchset resolves the issue by
>   ensuring that IRQ/softirq time is accounted for in the cgroup of the
>   interrupted tasks.
> 
> - getrusage(2) does not include time interrupted by IRQ/softirq
> 
>   Some services use getrusage(2) to check if workloads are experiencing CPU
>   pressure. Since IRQ/softirq time is no longer charged to task runtime,
>   getrusage(2) can no longer reflect the CPU pressure caused by heavy
>   interrupts.
> 
> This patchset addresses the first issue, which is relatively
> straightforward. 

So I don't think it is. I think they're both the same issue. You cannot
know for whom the work done by the (soft) interrupt is.

For instance, if you were to create 2 cgroups, and have one cgroup do a
while(1) loop, while you'd have that other cgroup do your netperf
workload, I suspect you'll see significant (soft)irq load on the
while(1) cgroup, even though it's guaranteed to not be from it.

Same with rusage -- rusage is fully task centric, and the work done by
(soft) irqs are not necessarily	related to the task they interrupt.


So while you're trying to make the world conform to your legacy
monitoring view, perhaps you should fix your view of things.