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

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Date:   Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:29:37 -0400
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.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 Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 07:07:10PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 13:22:49 -0400 Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> 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.
> 
> We've had very little in the way of review activity for the PSI
> patchset.  According to the changelog tags, anyway.

Peter reviewed it quite extensively over all revisions, and acked the
final version. Peter, can we add your acked-by or reviewed-by tag(s)?

The scheduler part accounts for 99% of the complexity in those
patches. The mm bits, while somewhat sprawling, are mostly mechanical.