Re: [PATCH 0/10] psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO v2

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Jul 27 2018 - 18:01:27 EST


Hi!

> The idea is to eventually incorporate this back into the kernel, so
> that Linux can avoid OOM livelocks (which TECHNICALLY aren't memory
> deadlocks, but for the user indistinguishable) out of the box.
>
> We also use psi memory pressure for loadshedding. Our batch job

psi->PSI?

> How do you use this feature?
>
> A kernel with CONFIG_PSI=y will create a /proc/pressure directory with
> 3 files: cpu, memory, and io. If using cgroup2, cgroups will also

Could we get the config named CONFIG_PRESSURE to match /proc/pressure?
"PSI" is little too terse...

Pavel

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