linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/9] sched,cgroup: Add interface for latency-nice

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Date:   Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:47:29 +0100
From:   Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@....com>
To:     Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Cc:     Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@....com>,
        Subhra Mazumdar <subhra.mazumdar@...cle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Glexiner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        steven.sistare@...cle.com, Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@...cle.com>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>, parth@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/9] sched,cgroup: Add interface for latency-nice

On 04/18/20 12:01, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> > What's missing is the per-taskgroup implementation, at least from the
> > standpoint of ACK.
> >
> > The (mainline) EAS use-case for latency nice is already in ACK
> > (android-5.4):
> >
> > https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/+/760b82c9b88d2c8125abfc5f732cc3cd460b2a54
> 
> Yes, I was aware of this. But if we use task groups, then the
> transition from schedtune -> uclamp means now the tasks that use
> uclamp would also be subjected to cpu.shares. That's why we were
> looking into the per-task interface and glad there's some work on this
> already done.

Hmm uclamp doesn't do anything with cpu.shares. I assume this is some
implementation detail at your end? IOW, you don't have to use cpu.shares to use
uclamp.

Although there should be few tasks in the system that need the latency-nice, so
I prefer the per-task interface rather than lump everything in a cgroup. Though
there could be valid use cases for the latter.

Thanks

--
Qais Yousef