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psi: clarify the Kconfig text for the default-disable option

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.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190129233617.16767-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Johannes Weiner and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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init/Kconfig
··· 512 512 per default but can be enabled through passing psi=1 on the 513 513 kernel commandline during boot. 514 514 515 + This feature adds some code to the task wakeup and sleep 516 + paths of the scheduler. The overhead is too low to affect 517 + common scheduling-intense workloads in practice (such as 518 + webservers, memcache), but it does show up in artificial 519 + scheduler stress tests, such as hackbench. 520 + 521 + If you are paranoid and not sure what the kernel will be 522 + used for, say Y. 523 + 524 + Say N if unsure. 525 + 515 526 endmenu # "CPU/Task time and stats accounting" 516 527 517 528 config CPU_ISOLATION