UPSTREAM: 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>
(cherry picked from commit 7b2489d37e1e355228f7c55724f77580e1dec22a)

Bug: 127712811
Test: lmkd in PSI mode
Change-Id: I5d0cb901562fd74c82d9d211544745b802776d8a
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index f3fcc15f57cf8ecd9b67572f0f55534ad3abadb9..92ae180bb084e0d586b6250d0827126ff28e14e0 100644 (file)
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -507,6 +507,17 @@ 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"
 
 source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig"