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Message-Id: <20240406081653.1161-1-hdanton@sina.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 16:16:53 +0800
From: Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: vincent.guittot@...aro.org,
bsegall@...gle.com,
kprateek.nayak@....com,
efault@....de,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 10/10] sched/eevdf: Use sched_attr::sched_runtime to set request/slice suggestion
On Fri, 05 Apr 2024 12:28:04 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> Allow applications to directly set a suggested request/slice length using
> sched_attr::sched_runtime.
>
> The implementation clamps the value to: 0.1[ms] <= slice <= 100[ms]
> which is 1/10 the size of HZ=1000 and 10 times the size of HZ=100.
>
Given HZ=100 for example, what is preventing applications of suggested
slice=0.5ms from running 5ms a tick? If slice is 90ms otoh, is tick able
to kick the curr that has been on cpu for 10ms off cpu, given
cfs_rq->nr_running > 1?
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -984,7 +984,8 @@ static void update_deadline(struct cfs_r
> * nice) while the request time r_i is determined by
> * sysctl_sched_base_slice.
> */
> - se->slice = sysctl_sched_base_slice;
> + if (!se->custom_slice)
> + se->slice = sysctl_sched_base_slice;
>
> /*
> * EEVDF: vd_i = ve_i + r_i / w_i
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