- The biggest change is introduction of a new iteration of the
SCHED_FAIR interactivity code: the EEVDF ("Earliest Eligible Virtual
Deadline First") scheduler.
EEVDF too is a virtual-time scheduler, with two parameters (weight
and relative deadline), compared to CFS that had weight only.
It completely reworks the base scheduler: placement, preemption,
picking -- everything.
LWN.net, as usual, has a terrific writeup about EEVDF:
https://lwn.net/Articles/925371/
Preemption (both tick and wakeup) is driven by testing against
a fresh pick. Because the tree is now effectively an interval
tree, and the selection is no longer the 'leftmost' task,
over-scheduling is less of a problem. A lot of the CFS
heuristics are removed or replaced by more natural latency-space
parameters & constructs.
In terms of expected performance regressions: we'll and can fix
everything where a 'good' workload misbehaves with the new scheduler,
but EEVDF inevitably changes workload scheduling in a binary fashion,
hopefully for the better in the overwhelming majority of cases,
but in some cases it won't, especially in adversarial loads that
got lucky with the previous code, such as some variants of hackbench.
We are trying hard to err on the side of fixing all performance
regressions, but we expect some inevitable post-release iterations
of that process.
- Improve load-balancing on hybrid x86 systems: enable cluster
scheduling (again).
- Improve & fix bandwidth-scheduling on nohz systems.
- Improve bandwidth-throttling.
- Use lock guards to simplify and de-goto-ify control flow.
- Misc improvements, cleanups and fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-core-2023-08-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
- The biggest change is introduction of a new iteration of the
SCHED_FAIR interactivity code: the EEVDF ("Earliest Eligible Virtual
Deadline First") scheduler
EEVDF too is a virtual-time scheduler, with two parameters (weight
and relative deadline), compared to CFS that had weight only. It
completely reworks the base scheduler: placement, preemption, picking
-- everything
LWN.net, as usual, has a terrific writeup about EEVDF:
https://lwn.net/Articles/925371/
Preemption (both tick and wakeup) is driven by testing against a
fresh pick. Because the tree is now effectively an interval tree, and
the selection is no longer the 'leftmost' task, over-scheduling is
less of a problem. A lot of the CFS heuristics are removed or
replaced by more natural latency-space parameters & constructs
In terms of expected performance regressions: we will and can fix
everything where a 'good' workload misbehaves with the new scheduler,
but EEVDF inevitably changes workload scheduling in a binary fashion,
hopefully for the better in the overwhelming majority of cases, but
in some cases it won't, especially in adversarial loads that got
lucky with the previous code, such as some variants of hackbench. We
are trying hard to err on the side of fixing all performance
regressions, but we expect some inevitable post-release iterations of
that process
- Improve load-balancing on hybrid x86 systems: enable cluster
scheduling (again)
- Improve & fix bandwidth-scheduling on nohz systems
- Improve bandwidth-throttling
- Use lock guards to simplify and de-goto-ify control flow
- Misc improvements, cleanups and fixes
* tag 'sched-core-2023-08-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (43 commits)
sched/eevdf/doc: Modify the documented knob to base_slice_ns as well
sched/eevdf: Curb wakeup-preemption
sched: Simplify sched_core_cpu_{starting,deactivate}()
sched: Simplify try_steal_cookie()
sched: Simplify sched_tick_remote()
sched: Simplify sched_exec()
sched: Simplify ttwu()
sched: Simplify wake_up_if_idle()
sched: Simplify: migrate_swap_stop()
sched: Simplify sysctl_sched_uclamp_handler()
sched: Simplify get_nohz_timer_target()
sched/rt: sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice show default timeslice after reset
sched/rt: Fix sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice intial value
sched/fair: Block nohz tick_stop when cfs bandwidth in use
sched, cgroup: Restore meaning to hierarchical_quota
MAINTAINERS: Add Peter explicitly to the psi section
sched/psi: Select KERNFS as needed
sched/topology: Align group flags when removing degenerate domain
sched/fair: remove util_est boosting
sched/fair: Propagate enqueue flags into place_entity()
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