Re: [PATCH 13/15] x86/kconfig/64: Enable popular scheduler, cgroups and namespaces options in the defconfig

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Mingo,
> 
> > +CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN=y
> > +CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING=y
> 
> Enabling CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING=y can lead to user-visible behavioral
> changes. For more context, please refer to the related discussion here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241222024734.63894-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com/ .

Yeah. I actually agree with your series. It (re-)includes IRQ/softirq 
time in task CPU usage statistics even under IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING=y, 
while still keeping the finegrained IRQ/softirq statistics as well, 
correct?

The Kconfig option is also arguably rather misleading:

config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
        bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
        depends on HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING && !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
        help
          Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
          accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
          transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
          small performance impact.

It only warns about a small performance impact, but doesn't warn that 
CPU accounting is changed in an incompatible fashion that surprises 
tooling...

But I think we should probably treat this as a bug, not as lack of 
documentation. Peter, do you concur?

> If we decide to enable it by default, we should clearly document this 
> behavior change. Below is the patch I wrote earlier but haven’t sent 
> out for review yet.

Note that it's not enabled by default - this patch is just about the 
x86 defconfig.

Thanks,

	Ingo