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

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Mon Jul 30 2018 - 11:37:43 EST


On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 12:01:23AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 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...

I'd rather have the internal config symbol match the naming scheme in
the code, where psi is a shorter, unique token as copmared to e.g.
pressure, press, prsr, etc.

The prompt text that the user primarily sees spells out "Pressure", so
I don't think this is confusing.