Re: [RESEND][PATCH v3 1/1] sched: Report the different kinds of imbalances in /proc/schedstat

[Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>]

On 2024-05-14 at 04:44:45 +0000, Swapnil Sapkal wrote:
> In /proc/schedstat, lb_imbalance reports the sum of imbalances
> discovered in sched domains with each call to sched_balance_rq(), which is
> not very useful because lb_imbalance does not mention whether the imbalance
> is due to load, utilization, nr_tasks or misfit_tasks. Remove this field
> from /proc/schedstat.
> 
> Currently there is no field in /proc/schedstat to report different types
> of imbalances. Introduce new fields in /proc/schedstat to report the
> total imbalances in load, utilization, nr_tasks or misfit_tasks.
> 
> Added fields to /proc/schedstat:
>  	- lb_imbalance_load: Total imbalance due to load.
> 	- lb_imbalance_util: Total imbalance due to utilization.
> 	- lb_imbalance_task: Total imbalance due to number of tasks.
> 	- lb_imbalance_misfit: Total imbalance due to misfit tasks.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Swapnil Sapkal <swapnil.sapkal@amd.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.rst | 121 ++++++++++++++----------
>  include/linux/sched/topology.h          |   5 +-
>  kernel/sched/fair.c                     |  21 +++-
>  kernel/sched/stats.c                    |   7 +-
>  4 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)

[...]

> diff --git a/kernel/sched/stats.c b/kernel/sched/stats.c
> index 78e48f5426ee..a02bc9db2f1c 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/stats.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/stats.c
> @@ -151,11 +151,14 @@ static int show_schedstat(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
>  			seq_printf(seq, "domain%d %*pb", dcount++,
>  				   cpumask_pr_args(sched_domain_span(sd)));
>  			for (itype = 0; itype < CPU_MAX_IDLE_TYPES; itype++) {
> -				seq_printf(seq, " %u %u %u %u %u %u %u %u",
> +				seq_printf(seq, " %u %u %u %u %u %u %u %u %u %u %u",
>  				    sd->lb_count[itype],
>  				    sd->lb_balanced[itype],
>  				    sd->lb_failed[itype],
> -				    sd->lb_imbalance[itype],
> +				    sd->lb_imbalance_load[itype],
> +				    sd->lb_imbalance_util[itype],
> +				    sd->lb_imbalance_task[itype],
> +				    sd->lb_imbalance_misfit[itype],
>  				    sd->lb_gained[itype],
>  				    sd->lb_hot_gained[itype],
>  				    sd->lb_nobusyq[itype],

Do we need to increase SCHEDSTAT_VERSION to 16?

thanks,
Chenyu