Re: [PATCH 0/6] sched,delayacct: Some cleanups

[Balbir Singh]

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 12:59:40PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Due to:
> 
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0000000000001d43ac05c0f5c6a0@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> and general principle, delayacct really shouldn't be using ktime (pvclock also
> really shouldn't be doing what it does, but that's another story). This lead me
> to looking at the SCHED_INFO, SCHEDSTATS, DELAYACCT (and PSI) accounting hell.
> 
> The rest of the patches are an attempt at simplifying all that a little. All
> that crud is enabled by default for distros which is leading to a death by a
> thousand cuts.
> 
> The last patch is an attempt at default disabling DELAYACCT, because I don't
> think anybody actually uses that much, but what do I know, there were no ill
> effects on my testbox. Perhaps we should mirror
> /proc/sys/kernel/sched_schedstats and provide a delayacct sysctl for runtime
> frobbing.
>

There are tools like iotop that use delayacct to display information. When the
code was checked in, we did run SPEC* back in the day 2006 to find overheads,
nothing significant showed. Do we have any date on the overhead your seeing?

I'll look at the patches

Balbir Singh.