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From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To:     Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] cgroup: make per-cgroup pressure stall tracking
 configurable
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On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 12:53:39PM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> PSI accounts stalls for each cgroup separately and aggregates it at each
> level of the hierarchy. This causes additional overhead with psi_avgs_work
> being called for each cgroup in the hierarchy. psi_avgs_work has been
> highly optimized, however on systems with large number of cgroups the
> overhead becomes noticeable.
> Systems which use PSI only at the system level could avoid this overhead
> if PSI can be configured to skip per-cgroup stall accounting.
> Add "cgroup_disable=pressure" kernel command-line option to allow
> requesting system-wide only pressure stall accounting. When set, it
> keeps system-wide accounting under /proc/pressure/ but skips accounting
> for individual cgroups and does not expose PSI nodes in cgroup hierarchy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>