linux-kernel - [PATCH 8/9] sched/psi: add kernel cmdline parameter psi_inner

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Date:   Thu, 21 Jul 2022 12:04:38 +0800
From:   Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
To:     hannes@...xchg.org, surenb@...gle.com, mingo@...hat.com,
        peterz@...radead.org, tj@...nel.org, corbet@....net,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, rdunlap@...radead.org
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        songmuchun@...edance.com, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
Subject: [PATCH 8/9] sched/psi: add kernel cmdline parameter psi_inner_cgroup

PSI accounts stalls for each cgroup separately and aggregates it
at each level of the hierarchy. This may case non-negligible overhead
for some workloads when under deep level of the hierarchy.

commit 3958e2d0c34e ("cgroup: make per-cgroup pressure stall tracking configurable")
make PSI to skip per-cgroup stall accounting, only account system-wide
to avoid this each level overhead.

For our use case, we also want leaf cgroup PSI accounted for userspace
adjustment on that cgroup, apart from only system-wide management.

So this patch add kernel cmdline parameter "psi_inner_cgroup" to control
whether or not to account for inner cgroups, which is default to true
for compatibility.

Performance test on Intel Xeon Platinum with 3 levels of cgroup:

1. default (psi_inner_cgroup=true)

$ perf bench sched all
 # Running sched/messaging benchmark...
 # 20 sender and receiver processes per group
 # 10 groups == 400 processes run

     Total time: 0.032 [sec]

 # Running sched/pipe benchmark...
 # Executed 1000000 pipe operations between two processes

     Total time: 7.758 [sec]

       7.758354 usecs/op
         128893 ops/sec

2. psi_inner_cgroup=false

$ perf bench sched all
 # Running sched/messaging benchmark...
 # 20 sender and receiver processes per group
 # 10 groups == 400 processes run

     Total time: 0.032 [sec]

 # Running sched/pipe benchmark...
 # Executed 1000000 pipe operations between two processes

     Total time: 7.309 [sec]

       7.309436 usecs/op
         136809 ops/sec

Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |  6 ++++++
 kernel/sched/psi.c                              | 11 ++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 8090130b544b..6beef5b8bc36 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4419,6 +4419,12 @@
 			tracking.
 			Format: <bool>
 
+	psi_inner_cgroup=
+			[KNL] Enable or disable pressure stall information
+			tracking for the inner cgroups.
+			Format: <bool>
+			default: enabled
+
 	psmouse.proto=	[HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to
 			probe for; one of (bare|imps|exps|lifebook|any).
 	psmouse.rate=	[HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports
diff --git a/kernel/sched/psi.c b/kernel/sched/psi.c
index 2228cbf3bdd3..8d76920f47b3 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/psi.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/psi.c
@@ -147,12 +147,21 @@ static bool psi_enable;
 #else
 static bool psi_enable = true;
 #endif
+
+static bool psi_inner_cgroup __read_mostly = true;
+
 static int __init setup_psi(char *str)
 {
 	return kstrtobool(str, &psi_enable) == 0;
 }
 __setup("psi=", setup_psi);
 
+static int __init setup_psi_inner_cgroup(char *str)
+{
+	return kstrtobool(str, &psi_inner_cgroup) == 0;
+}
+__setup("psi_inner_cgroup=", setup_psi_inner_cgroup);
+
 /* Running averages - we need to be higher-res than loadavg */
 #define PSI_FREQ	(2*HZ+1)	/* 2 sec intervals */
 #define EXP_10s		1677		/* 1/exp(2s/10s) as fixed-point */
@@ -958,7 +967,7 @@ int psi_cgroup_alloc(struct cgroup *cgroup)
 	group_init(&cgroup->psi);
 
 	parent = cgroup_parent(cgroup);
-	if (parent && cgroup_parent(parent))
+	if (parent && cgroup_parent(parent) && psi_inner_cgroup)
 		cgroup->psi.parent = cgroup_psi(parent);
 	else
 		cgroup->psi.parent = &psi_system;
-- 
2.36.1