linux-kernel - [PATCH] sched/doc: Update documentation for base_slice_ns and CONFIG

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:08:16 +0530
From: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya <mchauras@...ux.ibm.com>
To: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc: corbet@....net, mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya <mchauras@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] sched/doc: Update documentation for base_slice_ns and CONFIG_HZ relation

The tunable base_slice_ns is dependent on CONFIG_HZ (i.e. TICK_NSEC)
for any significant performance improvement. The reason being the
scheduler tick is not frequent enough to force preemption when
base_slice expires in case of

           base_slice_ns < TICK_NSEC

The below data is of stress-ng
Number of CPU: 1
Stressor threads: 4
Time: 30sec

On CONFIG_HZ=1000

| base_slice | avg-run (msec) | context-switches |
| ---------- | -------------- | ---------------- |
| 3ms        | 2.914          | 10342            |
| 6ms        | 4.857          | 6196             |
| 9ms        | 6.754          | 4482             |
| 12ms       | 7.872          | 3802             |
| 22ms       | 11.294         | 2710             |
| 32ms       | 13.425         | 2284             |

On CONFIG_HZ=100

| base_slice | avg-run (msec) | context-switches |
| ---------- | -------------- | ---------------- |
| 3ms        | 9.144          | 3337             |
| 6ms        | 9.113          | 3301             |
| 9ms        | 8.991          | 3315             |
| 12ms       | 12.935         | 2328             |
| 22ms       | 16.031         | 1915             |
| 32ms       | 18.608         | 1622             |

base_slice: the value of base_slice in ms
avg-run (msec): average time of the stressor threads got on cpu before
it got preempted
context-switches: number of context switches for the stress-ng process

Signed-off-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya <mchauras@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst
index 6cffffe26500..82985d675554 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst
@@ -100,6 +100,9 @@ which can be used to tune the scheduler from "desktop" (i.e., low latencies) to
 "server" (i.e., good batching) workloads.  It defaults to a setting suitable
 for desktop workloads.  SCHED_BATCH is handled by the CFS scheduler module too.
 
+In case the CONFIG_HZ leads to base_slice_ns < TICK_NSEC. The settings of
+base_slice_ns will have little to no impact on the workloads.
+
 Due to its design, the CFS scheduler is not prone to any of the "attacks" that
 exist today against the heuristics of the stock scheduler: fiftyp.c, thud.c,
 chew.c, ring-test.c, massive_intr.c all work fine and do not impact
-- 
2.44.0