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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, juri.lelli@redhat.com,
	vincent.guittot@linaro.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] psi: Remove the redundant psi_task_tick
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 11:45:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YCFqxEw0wJC6UGiE@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210207115642.75620-1-zhouchengming@bytedance.com>

On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 07:56:42PM +0800, Chengming Zhou wrote:
> From: zhouchengming <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
> 
> When the current task in a cgroup is in_memstall, the corresponding psi_group
> is in PSI_MEM_FULL state

This is correct.

> so we can remove the redundant psi_task_tick from scheduler_tick to
> save this periodic cost.

But this isn't. It IS the task tick that makes it so. The state change
tracking counts MEMSTALL tasks and ONCPU tasks, but it doesn't check
whether the ONCPU task is the MEMSTALL one.

It would be possible to incorporate that into psi_task_switch(), but
you have to be careful with the branches because that path is often
hotter than the timer tick.

This patch by itself breaks page reclaim detection, so NAK.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-08 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-07 11:56 [PATCH] psi: Remove the redundant psi_task_tick Chengming Zhou
2021-02-08 16:45 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2021-02-09  2:21   ` [External] " Chengming Zhou

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