linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/9] psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO v4

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Date:   Fri, 7 Sep 2018 13:04:07 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.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>,
        Daniel Drake <drake@...lessm.com>,
        Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@...eaurora.org>,
        Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@...y.com>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and
 IO v4

On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 05:43:03PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 01:22:49PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > This version 4 of the PSI series incorporates feedback from Peter and
> > fixes two races in the lockless aggregator that Suren found in his
> > testing and which caused the sample calculation to sometimes underflow
> > and record bogusly large samples; details at the bottom of this email.
> 
> Peter, do the changes from v3 look sane to you?
> 
> If there aren't any further objections, I was hoping we could get this
> lined up for 4.20.

I suppose it looks ok, there's a few small nits, but nothing big.

I still hate psi_ttwu_dequeue(), but I don't really know what to about
that.

So yeah, grudingly acked. Did you want me to pick this up through the
scheduler tree since most of this lives there?