Re: [PATCH 0/2] RFC: readd fair sleepers for server systems

[Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 13:32 +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> > Why is this, is this some weird interaction with your hypervisor?
> 
> It is not completely analyzed, as soon as debugging goes out of Linux it 
> can be kind of complex even internally. 

Is there significant steal time in these workloads? If so, does it help
if you implement
CONFIG_PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING/paravirt_steal_rq_enabled for s390?
(although I guess we'd better loose the paravirt part of the name then).

This 'feature' subtracts steal time from the task-clock so that the
scheduler doesn't consider a task to be running when the vcpu wasn't
running as well.

Not doing that (current situation) could result in over-active
preemption because we think a task ran significantly longer than it
actually did. Same for sleeper fairness, we might think a task slept
very long (and give a bigger boost) when in fact it didn't.