The current help text caused some confusion in online forums about whether or not to default-enable or default-disable psi in vendor kernels. This is because it doesn't communicate the reason for why we made this setting configurable in the first place: that the overhead is non-zero in an artificial scheduler stress test.
Since this isn't representative of real workloads, and the effect was not measurable in scheduler-heavy real world applications such as the webservers and memcache installations at Facebook, it's fair to point out that this is a pretty cautious option to select. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> --- init/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 513fa544a134..ad3381e57402 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -512,6 +512,17 @@ config PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the kernel commandline during boot. + This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep + paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect + common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as + webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial + scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. + + If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be + used for, say Y. + + Say N if unsure. + endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" config CPU_ISOLATION -- 2.20.1
