linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] cgroup: make per-cgroup pressure stall tracking configurable

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Date:   Tue, 18 May 2021 11:23:04 -0700
From:   Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
To:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
Cc:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Zefan Li <lizefan.x@...edance.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
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        Benjamin Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] cgroup: make per-cgroup pressure stall tracking configurable

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:08 AM Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 7:02 PM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > PSI accounts stalls for each cgroup separately and aggregates it at each
> > level of the hierarchy. This causes additional overhead with psi_avgs_work
> > being called for each cgroup in the hierarchy. psi_avgs_work has been
> > highly optimized, however on systems with large number of cgroups the
> > overhead becomes noticeable.
> > Systems which use PSI only at the system level could avoid this overhead
> > if PSI can be configured to skip per-cgroup stall accounting.
> > Add "cgroup_disable=pressure" kernel command-line option to allow
> > requesting system-wide only pressure stall accounting. When set, it
> > keeps system-wide accounting under /proc/pressure/ but skips accounting
> > for individual cgroups and does not expose PSI nodes in cgroup hierarchy.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
>
> I am assuming that this is for Android and at the moment Android is
> only interested in system level pressure. I am wondering if there is
> any plan for Android to have cgroup hierarchies with explicit limits
> in future?

Correct and yes, we would like to use memcgs to limit memory in the
future, however we do not plan on using per-cgroup psi so far.

>
> If yes, then I think we should follow up (this patch is fine
> independently) with making this feature more general by explicitly
> enabling psi for each cgroup level similar to how we enable
> controllers through cgroup.subtree_control.
>
> Something like:
>
> $ echo "+psi" > cgroup.subtree_control
>
> This definitely would be helpful for server use cases where jobs do
> sub-containers but might not be interested in psi but the admin is
> interested in the top level job's psi.

Haven't thought about it before but that makes sense to me.