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: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230816134059.GC982867@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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