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Commit 63304558 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra
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sched/eevdf: Curb wakeup-preemption



Mike and others noticed that EEVDF does like to over-schedule quite a
bit -- which does hurt performance of a number of benchmarks /
workloads.

In particular, what seems to cause over-scheduling is that when lag is
of the same order (or larger) than the request / slice then placement
will not only cause the task to be placed left of current, but also
with a smaller deadline than current, which causes immediate
preemption.

[ notably, lag bounds are relative to HZ ]

Mike suggested we stick to picking 'current' for as long as it's
eligible to run, giving it uninterrupted runtime until it reaches
parity with the pack.

Augment Mike's suggestion by only allowing it to exhaust it's initial
request.

One random data point:

echo NO_RUN_TO_PARITY > /debug/sched/features
perf stat -a -e context-switches --repeat 10 -- perf bench sched messaging -g 20 -t -l 5000

	3,723,554        context-switches      ( +-  0.56% )
	9.5136 +- 0.0394 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  0.41% )

echo RUN_TO_PARITY > /debug/sched/features
perf stat -a -e context-switches --repeat 10 -- perf bench sched messaging -g 20 -t -l 5000

	2,556,535        context-switches      ( +-  0.51% )
	9.2427 +- 0.0302 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  0.33% )

Suggested-by: default avatarMike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230816134059.GC982867@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
parent 7170509c
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