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From: Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.com>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: kernel-team <kernel-team@cloudflare.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Subject: Lower than expected CPU pressure in PSI
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 11:47:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABWYdi25Y=zrfdnitT3sSgC3UqcFHfz6-N2YP7h2TJai=JH_zg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

We added reporting for PSI in cgroups and results are somewhat surprising.

My test setup consists of 3 services:

* stress-cpu1-no-contention.service : taskset -c 1 stress --cpu 1
* stress-cpu2-first-half.service    : taskset -c 2 stress --cpu 1
* stress-cpu2-second-half.service   : taskset -c 2 stress --cpu 1

First service runs unconstrained, the other two compete for CPU.

As expected, I can see 500ms/s sched delay for the latter two and
aggregated 1000ms/s delay for /system.slice, no surprises here.

However, CPU pressure reported by PSI says that none of my services
have any pressure on them. I can see around 434ms/s pressure on
/unified/system.slice and 425ms/s pressure on /unified cgroup, which
is surprising for three reasons:

* Pressure is absent for my services (I expect it to match scheed delay)
* Pressure on /unified/system.slice is lower than both 500ms/s and 1000ms/s
* Pressure on root cgroup is lower than on system.slice

I'm running Linux 5.4.8 with hybrid cgroup hierarchy under systemd.

P.S.: ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl kernel/sched/psi.c does not say
Johannes Weiner is a maintainer

             reply	other threads:[~2020-01-08 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-08 19:47 Ivan Babrou [this message]
2020-01-09 16:16 ` Lower than expected CPU pressure in PSI Johannes Weiner
2020-01-10 19:28   ` Ivan Babrou
2020-01-15 16:55     ` Johannes Weiner
2020-01-16 20:24       ` Ivan Babrou
2020-02-07 13:08   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-08 10:19     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-10 18:04       ` Johannes Weiner
2020-01-09 16:23 ` Johannes Weiner

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