linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/10] sched/fair: Implement an EEVDF like policy

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Date:   Thu, 09 Mar 2023 17:24:21 +0100
From:   Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] sched/fair: Implement an EEVDF like policy

On Thu, 2023-03-09 at 16:29 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> So if I add TICK_NSEC based sleeper bonus (/2 for gentle), then starve
> works -- this is the absolutely minimal amount required. It sucks a bit
> it's HZ dependent, but alas.
>
> Also, the whole sleeper bonus gets us back into needing to track the old
> vruntime and the overflow crap for super long sleeps and all that fugly
> :/ I was so hoping we could delete that code.
>
> Oh well.

Yeah, it's a worthy target.

	-Mike