Re: PSI idle-shutoff

[Suren Baghdasaryan]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 11:20 PM Hillf Danton <hdanton@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 11 Oct 2022 10:11:58 -0700 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 4:38 AM Hillf Danton <hdanton@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> Given activities on remote CPUs, can you specify what prevents psi_avgs_work
> >> from being scheduled on remote CPUs if for example the local CPU has been
> >> idle for a second?
> >
> > I'm not a scheduler expert but I can imagine some work that finished
> > running on a big core A and generated some activity since the last
> > time psi_avgs_work executed.  With no other activity the next
> > psi_avgs_work could be scheduled on a small core B to conserve power.
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> Given core A and B, nothing prevents.
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> > There might be other cases involving cpuset limitation changes or cpu
> > offlining but I didn't think too hard about these. The bottom line, I
> > don't think we should be designing mechanisms which rely on
> > assumptions about how tasks will be scheduled. Even if these
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> The tasks here makes me guess that we are on different pages - scheduling
> work has little to do with how tasks are scheduled, and is no more than
> queuing work on the system_wq in the case of psi_avgs_work,

I must have misunderstood your question then. My original concern was
that in the above example your suggested patch would not reschedule
psi_avgs_work to aggregate the activity recorded from core A. Easily
fixable but looks like a simpler approach is possible.

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> > assumptions are correct today they might change in the future and
> > things will break in unexpected places.
>
> with nothing assumed.
>