linux/kernel/sched
Johannes Weiner e0c274472d psi: make disabling/enabling easier for vendor kernels
Mel Gorman reports a hackbench regression with psi that would prohibit
shipping the suse kernel with it default-enabled, but he'd still like
users to be able to opt in at little to no cost to others.

With the current combination of CONFIG_PSI and the psi_disabled bool set
from the commandline, this is a challenge.  Do the following things to
make it easier:

1. Add a config option CONFIG_PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED that allows distros
   to enable CONFIG_PSI in their kernel but leave the feature disabled
   unless a user requests it at boot-time.

   To avoid double negatives, rename psi_disabled= to psi=.

2. Make psi_disabled a static branch to eliminate any branch costs
   when the feature is disabled.

In terms of numbers before and after this patch, Mel says:

: The following is a comparision using CONFIG_PSI=n as a baseline against
: your patch and a vanilla kernel
:
:                          4.20.0-rc4             4.20.0-rc4             4.20.0-rc4
:                 kconfigdisable-v1r1                vanilla        psidisable-v1r1
: Amean     1       1.3100 (   0.00%)      1.3923 (  -6.28%)      1.3427 (  -2.49%)
: Amean     3       3.8860 (   0.00%)      4.1230 *  -6.10%*      3.8860 (  -0.00%)
: Amean     5       6.8847 (   0.00%)      8.0390 * -16.77%*      6.7727 (   1.63%)
: Amean     7       9.9310 (   0.00%)     10.8367 *  -9.12%*      9.9910 (  -0.60%)
: Amean     12     16.6577 (   0.00%)     18.2363 *  -9.48%*     17.1083 (  -2.71%)
: Amean     18     26.5133 (   0.00%)     27.8833 *  -5.17%*     25.7663 (   2.82%)
: Amean     24     34.3003 (   0.00%)     34.6830 (  -1.12%)     32.0450 (   6.58%)
: Amean     30     40.0063 (   0.00%)     40.5800 (  -1.43%)     41.5087 (  -3.76%)
: Amean     32     40.1407 (   0.00%)     41.2273 (  -2.71%)     39.9417 (   0.50%)
:
: It's showing that the vanilla kernel takes a hit (as the bisection
: indicated it would) and that disabling PSI by default is reasonably
: close in terms of performance for this particular workload on this
: particular machine so;

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181127165329.GA29728@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Tested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reported-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-11-30 14:56:14 -08:00
..
autogroup.c sched/autogroup: Fix possible Spectre-v1 indexing for sched_prio_to_weight[] 2018-05-05 08:34:42 +02:00
autogroup.h sched/headers: Simplify and clean up header usage in the scheduler 2018-03-04 12:39:29 +01:00
clock.c sched/clock: Disable interrupts when calling generic_sched_clock_init() 2018-07-30 19:33:35 +02:00
completion.c sched/Documentation: Update wake_up() & co. memory-barrier guarantees 2018-07-17 09:30:34 +02:00
core.c Merge branch 'sched/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-11-11 16:33:00 -06:00
cpuacct.c sched/headers: Simplify and clean up header usage in the scheduler 2018-03-04 12:39:29 +01:00
cpudeadline.c sched/headers: Simplify and clean up header usage in the scheduler 2018-03-04 12:39:29 +01:00
cpudeadline.h sched/headers: Simplify and clean up header usage in the scheduler 2018-03-04 12:39:29 +01:00
cpufreq_schedutil.c sched/fair: Remove #ifdefs from scale_rt_capacity() 2018-07-25 11:41:05 +02:00
cpufreq.c sched/headers: Simplify and clean up header usage in the scheduler 2018-03-04 12:39:29 +01:00
cpupri.c sched/headers: Simplify and clean up header usage in the scheduler 2018-03-04 12:39:29 +01:00
cpupri.h sched/headers: Simplify and clean up header usage in the scheduler 2018-03-04 12:39:29 +01:00
cputime.c sched/headers: Simplify and clean up header usage in the scheduler 2018-03-04 12:39:29 +01:00
deadline.c sched/numa: Pass destination CPU as a parameter to migrate_task_rq 2018-10-02 09:42:21 +02:00
debug.c sched/debug: Fix potential deadlock when writing to sched_features 2018-09-10 10:13:45 +02:00
fair.c sched/fair: Fix cpu_util_wake() for 'execl' type workloads 2018-11-12 05:00:46 +01:00
features.h sched/fair: Disable LB_BIAS by default 2018-10-02 09:45:01 +02:00
idle.c x86/stackprotector: Remove the call to boot_init_stack_canary() from cpu_startup_entry() 2018-10-22 04:07:24 +02:00
isolation.c sched/headers: Simplify and clean up header usage in the scheduler 2018-03-04 12:39:29 +01:00
loadavg.c sched: loadavg: make calc_load_n() public 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
Makefile psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
membarrier.c sched/headers: Simplify and clean up header usage in the scheduler 2018-03-04 12:39:29 +01:00
pelt.c sched/fair: Remove setting task's se->runnable_weight during PELT update 2018-10-02 09:45:03 +02:00
pelt.h sched/pelt: Fix warning and clean up IRQ PELT config 2018-10-02 09:45:00 +02:00
psi.c psi: make disabling/enabling easier for vendor kernels 2018-11-30 14:56:14 -08:00
rt.c sched/rt: Update comment in pick_next_task_rt() 2018-10-29 07:18:04 +01:00
sched-pelt.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
sched.h psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
stats.c proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
stats.h psi: make disabling/enabling easier for vendor kernels 2018-11-30 14:56:14 -08:00
stop_task.c sched: Clean up and harmonize the coding style of the scheduler code base 2018-03-03 15:50:21 +01:00
swait.c sched/swait: Rename to exclusive 2018-06-20 11:35:56 +02:00
topology.c sched/topology: Fix off by one bug 2018-11-04 00:40:03 +01:00
wait_bit.c sched/wait: Improve __var_waitqueue() code generation 2018-03-20 08:23:25 +01:00
wait.c sched/wait: assert the wait_queue_head lock is held in __wake_up_common 2018-08-22 10:52:47 -07:00