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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:45:14 -0000
From: "tip-bot2 for Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To: linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya <mchauras@...ux.ibm.com>,
 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
 x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [tip: sched/urgent] sched/doc: Update documentation for base_slice_ns
 and CONFIG_HZ relation

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

Commit-ID:     a26979377bf34534ce5ee2712d2a46157ec61498
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/a26979377bf34534ce5ee2712d2a46157ec61498
Author:        Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya <mchauras@...ux.ibm.com>
AuthorDate:    Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:08:16 +05:30
Committer:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitterDate: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:34:16 +01:00

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>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240320173815.927637-2-mchauras@linux.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 6cffffe..e030876 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 CONFIG_HZ results in base_slice_ns < TICK_NSEC, the value 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