linux-kernel - [tip: sched/core] sched: adjust sleeper credit for SCHED

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Date:   Thu, 09 Sep 2021 11:18:26 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Josh Don" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Josh Don <joshdon@...gle.com>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Jiang Biao <benbjiang@...cent.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [tip: sched/core] sched: adjust sleeper credit for SCHED_IDLE entities

The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     bb1fc3bc521782d018902143c8301ab4a5e53557
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/bb1fc3bc521782d018902143c8301ab4a5e53557
Author:        Josh Don <joshdon@...gle.com>
AuthorDate:    Thu, 19 Aug 2021 18:04:03 -07:00
Committer:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CommitterDate: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 11:27:31 +02:00

sched: adjust sleeper credit for SCHED_IDLE entities

Give reduced sleeper credit to SCHED_IDLE entities. As a result, woken
SCHED_IDLE entities will take longer to preempt normal entities.

The benefit of this change is to make it less likely that a newly woken
SCHED_IDLE entity will preempt a short-running normal entity before it
blocks.

We still give a small sleeper credit to SCHED_IDLE entities, so that
idle<->idle competition retains some fairness.

Example: With HZ=1000, spawned four threads affined to one cpu, one of
which was set to SCHED_IDLE. Without this patch, wakeup latency for the
SCHED_IDLE thread was ~1-2ms, with the patch the wakeup latency was
~5ms.

Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@...cent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210820010403.946838-5-joshdon@google.com
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 7330a77..b27ed8b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4201,7 +4201,12 @@ place_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int initial)
 
 	/* sleeps up to a single latency don't count. */
 	if (!initial) {
-		unsigned long thresh = sysctl_sched_latency;
+		unsigned long thresh;
+
+		if (se_is_idle(se))
+			thresh = sysctl_sched_min_granularity;
+		else
+			thresh = sysctl_sched_latency;
 
 		/*
 		 * Halve their sleep time's effect, to allow