linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/10] psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO

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Message-ID: <20180718221139.GF2838@cmpxchg.org>
Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 18:11:39 -0400
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@...eaurora.org>,
        Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory,
 and IO

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 05:17:05PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 01:29:40PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > @@ -457,6 +457,22 @@ config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
> >  
> >  	  Say N if unsure.
> >  
> > +config PSI
> > +	bool "Pressure stall information tracking"
> > +	select SCHED_INFO
> 
> What's the deal here? AFAICT it does not in fact use SCHED_INFO for
> _anything_. You just hooked into the sched_info_{en,de}queue() hooks,
> but you don't use any of the sched_info data.
> 
> So the dependency is an artificial one that should not exist.

You're right, it doesn't strictly depend on it. I'll split that out.