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SubjectRe: [RFC 6/6] sched/fair: Add sched group latency support
On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 at 17:41, Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2022-03-21 at 07:24 -1000, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 05:14:06PM +0100, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> > > Tasks can set its latency priority which is then used to decide to preempt
> > > the current running entity of the cfs but sched group entities still have
> > > the default latency priority.
> > >
> > > Add a latency field in task group to set the latency priority of the group
> > > which will be used against other entity in the parent cfs.
> >
> > One thing that bothers me about this interface is that the configuration
> > values aren't well defined. We have the same problems with the nice levels
> > but at least have them map to well defined weight values, which likely won't
> > change in any foreseeable future. The fact that we have the
> > not-too-well-defined nice levels as an interface shouldn't be a reason we
> > add another one. Provided that this is something scheduler folks want, it'd
> > be really great if the interface can be better thought through. What are the
> > numbers actually encoding?
> >
> >
>
> The way I was interpreting the latency_nice number is as follow:
> Given runnable tasks that have not exceeded their time slice,
> the task with the lowest latency nice number run first.

The current version is not such binary in the decision as I wanted to
have a smoother level of preemption between close latency nice
priority.

>
> The current patchset takes care of the
> case of tasks within a run queue. I think we also need to
> consider which cpu should be selected for a waking
> task, if we cannot find an idle CPU.
>
> It seems reasonable that we wake a task on a CPU that is running a task with
> a higher latency nice value and lower load than previous CPU the waking task
> has run on. That way we can wake latency sensitive tasks faster in a busy system.
>
> Tim
>

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