sched,fair: Alternative sched_slice()
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:44:46 +0000 (13:44 +0100)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:06:35 +0000 (17:06 +0200)
commit0c2de3f054a59f15e01804b75a04355c48de628c
treecacb2c2f2ad3711dac0212cc31dbdbedda6552f2
parentd27e9ae2f244805bbdc730d85fba28685d2471e5
sched,fair: Alternative sched_slice()

The current sched_slice() seems to have issues; there's two possible
things that could be improved:

 - the 'nr_running' used for __sched_period() is daft when cgroups are
   considered. Using the RQ wide h_nr_running seems like a much more
   consistent number.

 - (esp) cgroups can slice it real fine, which makes for easy
   over-scheduling, ensure min_gran is what the name says.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210412102001.611897312@infradead.org
kernel/sched/fair.c
kernel/sched/features.h