Re: [PATCH linux-next v3 2/4] sched/psi: Avoid update triggers and rtpoll_total when it is unnecessary

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Oct 11 2023 - 17:15:29 EST



* yang.yang29@xxxxxxxxxx <yang.yang29@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When psimon wakes up and there are no state changes for rtpoll_states,
> it's unnecessary to update triggers and rtpoll_total because the pressures
> being monitored by user had not changed.
> This will help to slightly reduce unnecessary computations of psi.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Zhang Yunkai <zhang.yunkai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched/psi.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/psi.c b/kernel/sched/psi.c
> index be853f227e40..143f8eb34f9d 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/psi.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/psi.c
> @@ -704,11 +704,12 @@ static void psi_rtpoll_work(struct psi_group *group)
> }
>
> if (now >= group->rtpoll_next_update) {
> - update_triggers(group, now, &update_total, PSI_POLL);
> group->rtpoll_next_update = now + group->rtpoll_min_period;
> - if (update_total)
> + if (changed_states & group->rtpoll_states) {
> + update_triggers(group, now, &update_total, PSI_POLL);
> memcpy(group->rtpoll_total, group->total[PSI_POLL],
> sizeof(group->rtpoll_total));
> + }

Yeah, so I believe we may have been talking past each other for past
versions of this patch: why is this patch modifying the order of the
modification to group->rtpoll_next_update?

It should do the below sequence, nothing more - see the patch attached
below. This is basically a combination of patches #2 and #3.

And then the final patch removes the now superfluous 'update_total'
parameter, which is always true.

Here are the commits I applied to tip:sched/core:

e03dc9fa0663 sched/psi: Change update_triggers() to a 'void' function
...
80cc1d1d5ee3 sched/psi: Avoid updating PSI triggers and ->rtpoll_total when there are no state changes
3657680f38cd sched/psi: Delete the 'update_total' function parameter from update_triggers()

I rewrote the changelogs for readability.

Thanks,

Ingo

===================>
From: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 16:41:07 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] sched/psi: Avoid updating PSI triggers and ->rtpoll_total when there are no state changes

When psimon wakes up and there are no state changes for ->rtpoll_states,
it's unnecessary to update triggers and ->rtpoll_total because the pressures
being monitored by the user have not changed.

This will help to slightly reduce unnecessary computations of PSI.

[ mingo: Changelog updates ]

Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Ziljstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202310101641075436843@xxxxxxxxxx
---
kernel/sched/psi.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/psi.c b/kernel/sched/psi.c
index be853f227e40..79f8db0c6150 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/psi.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/psi.c
@@ -704,11 +704,12 @@ static void psi_rtpoll_work(struct psi_group *group)
}

if (now >= group->rtpoll_next_update) {
- update_triggers(group, now, &update_total, PSI_POLL);
- group->rtpoll_next_update = now + group->rtpoll_min_period;
- if (update_total)
+ if (changed_states & group->rtpoll_states) {
+ update_triggers(group, now, &update_total, PSI_POLL);
memcpy(group->rtpoll_total, group->total[PSI_POLL],
sizeof(group->rtpoll_total));
+ }
+ group->rtpoll_next_update = now + group->rtpoll_min_period;
}

psi_schedule_rtpoll_work(group,