Re: [PATCH 8/9] psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO

[Johannes Weiner]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 07:07:33PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 11:19:57AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > +static bool psi_update_stats(struct psi_group *group)
> > +{
> > +	u64 deltas[NR_PSI_STATES - 1] = { 0, };
> > +	unsigned long missed_periods = 0;
> > +	unsigned long nonidle_total = 0;
> > +	u64 now, expires, period;
> > +	int cpu;
> > +	int s;
> > +
> > +	mutex_lock(&group->stat_lock);
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Collect the per-cpu time buckets and average them into a
> > +	 * single time sample that is normalized to wallclock time.
> > +	 *
> > +	 * For averaging, each CPU is weighted by its non-idle time in
> > +	 * the sampling period. This eliminates artifacts from uneven
> > +	 * loading, or even entirely idle CPUs.
> > +	 *
> > +	 * We don't need to synchronize against CPU hotplugging. If we
> > +	 * see a CPU that's online and has samples, we incorporate it.
> > +	 */
> > +	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
> 
> I'm still puzzled by this.. for 99% of the machines online == possible.
> Why not always iterate possible and leave it at that? This is hardly a
> fast path.

Hmm, you're right, that makes things much simpler. I guess I'm mostly
worried about the 1% where this significantly differs, but it looks
like we're smarter than simply doing CONFIG_NR_CPUS for the possible
map, and we can easily stomach a bit of discrepancy in this path.

I'll change that to possible and delete/update the third paragraph.

Thanks