From e0c274472d5d27f277af722e017525e0b33784cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Weiner Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 14:09:58 -0800 Subject: psi: make disabling/enabling easier for vendor kernels Mel Gorman reports a hackbench regression with psi that would prohibit shipping the suse kernel with it default-enabled, but he'd still like users to be able to opt in at little to no cost to others. With the current combination of CONFIG_PSI and the psi_disabled bool set from the commandline, this is a challenge. Do the following things to make it easier: 1. Add a config option CONFIG_PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED that allows distros to enable CONFIG_PSI in their kernel but leave the feature disabled unless a user requests it at boot-time. To avoid double negatives, rename psi_disabled= to psi=. 2. Make psi_disabled a static branch to eliminate any branch costs when the feature is disabled. In terms of numbers before and after this patch, Mel says: : The following is a comparision using CONFIG_PSI=n as a baseline against : your patch and a vanilla kernel : : 4.20.0-rc4 4.20.0-rc4 4.20.0-rc4 : kconfigdisable-v1r1 vanilla psidisable-v1r1 : Amean 1 1.3100 ( 0.00%) 1.3923 ( -6.28%) 1.3427 ( -2.49%) : Amean 3 3.8860 ( 0.00%) 4.1230 * -6.10%* 3.8860 ( -0.00%) : Amean 5 6.8847 ( 0.00%) 8.0390 * -16.77%* 6.7727 ( 1.63%) : Amean 7 9.9310 ( 0.00%) 10.8367 * -9.12%* 9.9910 ( -0.60%) : Amean 12 16.6577 ( 0.00%) 18.2363 * -9.48%* 17.1083 ( -2.71%) : Amean 18 26.5133 ( 0.00%) 27.8833 * -5.17%* 25.7663 ( 2.82%) : Amean 24 34.3003 ( 0.00%) 34.6830 ( -1.12%) 32.0450 ( 6.58%) : Amean 30 40.0063 ( 0.00%) 40.5800 ( -1.43%) 41.5087 ( -3.76%) : Amean 32 40.1407 ( 0.00%) 41.2273 ( -2.71%) 39.9417 ( 0.50%) : : It's showing that the vanilla kernel takes a hit (as the bisection : indicated it would) and that disabling PSI by default is reasonably : close in terms of performance for this particular workload on this : particular machine so; Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181127165329.GA29728@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Tested-by: Mel Gorman Reported-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- init/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'init/Kconfig') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index a4112e95724a..cf5b5a0dcbc2 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -509,6 +509,15 @@ config PSI Say N if unsure. +config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED + bool "Require boot parameter to enable pressure stall information tracking" + default n + depends on PSI + help + If set, pressure stall information tracking will be disabled + per default but can be enabled through passing psi_enable=1 + on the kernel commandline during boot. + endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" config CPU_ISOLATION -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151