Re: [question] Is there a plan to introduce a unified co-scheduling mechanism to CFS ?

[Zhang Haoyu <ahzhanghaoyu@gmail.com>]

 >> Hi,
 >>
 >> Is it worthy to introduce a unified co-scheduling mechanism to CFS ?
 >> Because multiple cooperating threads or tasks frequently synchronize 
with each other,
 >> not executing them concurrently would only increase the latency of 
synchronization.
 >> For example, a thread blocking in spinlock to waiting for another 
thread to release the same spinlock
 >> might reduce its waiting time by being executed concurrently with 
the thread which hold the same spinlock.
 >> In virtualization scenario, multiple vcpus (which belong to the same 
vm) co-scheduling is more desired
 >> when several cooperating threads/task is running in guest.
 >>
 >> Is there a plane for this work?
 >
 > Please refer to gang scheduler.
 >
Is there a mechanism to dynamically detect which vcpus belong to the 
same gang?
Maybe a cooperative degree can be used to decide the threshold of which 
vcpus belong to the same gang, just a wild thought.

 > Regards,
 > Wanpeng Li
 >>
 >> Thanks,
 >> Zhang Haoyu