linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] sched/core: Preempt current task in favour of bound kthread

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Date:   Thu, 12 Dec 2019 11:14:24 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:     Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Phil Auld <pauld@...hat.com>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
        Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
        Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] sched/core: Preempt current task in favour of bound
 kthread

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 11:10:31AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> @@ -4156,13 +4159,13 @@ check_preempt_tick(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *curr)
>  	if (delta_exec < sysctl_sched_min_granularity)
>  		return;
>  
> -	se = __pick_first_entity(cfs_rq);
> +	se = __pick_next_entity(cfs_rq, NULL);
>  	delta = curr->vruntime - se->vruntime;
>  
>  	if (delta < 0)
>  		return;

What I mean with the below comment is, when this isn't enough, try
something like:

	if (se == cfs_rq->next)
		ideal_runtime /= 2;

to make it yield sooner to 'next' buddies. Sadly, due to the whole
cgroup mess, we can't say what actual task is on the end of it (without
doing a full hierarchy pick, which is more expensive still).

> -	if (delta > ideal_runtime)
> +	if (delta > ideal_runtime) // maybe frob this too ?
>  		resched_curr(rq_of(cfs_rq));
>  }