linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 0/1] Fix lb_imbalance reporting in /proc/schedstat

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Message-ID: <20240315135501.1778620-1-swapnil.sapkal@amd.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:55:00 +0000
From: Swapnil Sapkal <swapnil.sapkal@....com>
To: <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <mingo@...hat.com>
CC: <peterz@...radead.org>, <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<juri.lelli@...hat.com>, <dietmar.eggemann@....com>, <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
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	<vincent.guittot@...aro.org>, <gautham.shenoy@....com>,
	<sshegde@...ux.ibm.com>, <kprateek.nayak@....com>, Swapnil Sapkal
	<swapnil.sapkal@....com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/1] Fix lb_imbalance reporting in /proc/schedstat

This patch adds new fields to /proc/schdstat. First version of
the patch is sent here [1]. This patch goes on top of the
commit d72cf62438d6 ("sched/balancing: Fix a couple of outdated function names in comments")
from tip/sched/core. This change is intended to be a part of v16 of
/proc/schedstat.

v1 --> v2 change:
  - Added links to previous schedstat documentation
  - Incorporated review comments by Shrikanth Hegde

Motivation:

In /proc/schedstat, lb_imbalance reports the sum of imbalances
discovered in sched domains with each call to sched_balance_rq(), which is
not very useful because lb_imbalance does not mention whether the imbalance
is due to load, utilization, nr_tasks or misfit_tasks. Remove this field
from /proc/schedstat.

Currently there is no field in /proc/schedstat to report different types
of imbalances. Introduce new fields in /proc/schedstat to report the
total imbalances in load, utilization, nr_tasks or misfit_tasks.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/66f1e42c-9035-4f9b-8c77-976ab50638bd@amd.com/

Swapnil Sapkal (1):
  sched: Report the different kinds of imbalances in /proc/schedstat

 Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.rst | 119 ++++++++++++++----------
 include/linux/sched/topology.h          |   5 +-
 kernel/sched/fair.c                     |  21 ++++-
 kernel/sched/stats.c                    |   7 +-
 4 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)

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2.34.1