linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 9/9] sched/psi: add PSI_IRQ to track IRQ/SOFTIRQ pressure

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Date:   Fri, 22 Jul 2022 11:30:53 +0800
From:   Abel Wu <wuyun.abel@...edance.com>
To:     Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@...edance.com>, 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
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] sched/psi: add PSI_IRQ to track IRQ/SOFTIRQ pressure

Hi Chengming,

On 7/21/22 12:04 PM, Chengming Zhou Wrote:
> Now PSI already tracked workload pressure stall information for
> CPU, memory and IO. Apart from these, IRQ/SOFTIRQ could have
> obvious impact on some workload productivity, such as web service
> workload.
> 
> When CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING, we can get IRQ/SOFTIRQ delta time
> from update_rq_clock_task(), in which we can record that delta
> to CPU curr task's cgroups as PSI_IRQ_FULL status.

The {soft,}irq affection should be equal to all the runnable tasks
on that cpu, not only rq->curr. Further I think irqstall is per-cpu
rather than per-cgroup.

Abel