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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: mingo@kernel.org
Cc: longman@redhat.com, chenridong@huaweicloud.com,
	peterz@infradead.org, juri.lelli@redhat.com,
	vincent.guittot@linaro.org, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, bsegall@google.com, mgorman@suse.de,
	vschneid@redhat.com, tj@kernel.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	mkoutny@suse.com, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jstultz@google.com,
	kprateek.nayak@amd.com
Subject: [RFC][PATCH 5/8] sched/fair: Add cgroup_mode: CONCUR
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:51:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260317104342.931729160@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20260317095113.387450089@infradead.org

A variation of MAX; where instead of assuming maximal concurrent, this scales
with 'min(nr_tasks, nr_cpus)'. This handles the low concurrency cases more
gracefully, with the exception of CPU affnity.

Note: the tracking of tg->tasks is somewhat expensive :-/

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
---
 kernel/sched/debug.c |    1 +
 kernel/sched/fair.c  |   38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 kernel/sched/sched.h |    3 +++
 3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
@@ -593,6 +593,7 @@ int cgroup_mode = 1;
 static const char *cgroup_mode_str[] = {
 	"up",
 	"smp",
+	"concur",
 	"max",
 };
 
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4210,6 +4210,30 @@ static long calc_max_shares(struct cfs_r
 	return __calc_smp_shares(cfs_rq, tg_shares * nr, max_shares);
 }
 
+static inline int tg_tasks(struct task_group *tg)
+{
+	return max(1, atomic_long_read(&tg->tasks));
+}
+
+/*
+ * Func: min(fraction(num * tg->shares), nice -20); where
+ *       num = min(nr_tasks, nr_cpus)
+ *
+ * Similar to max, except scale with min(nr_tasks, nr_cpus), which gives
+ * a far more natural distrubution. Can still create edge case using CPU
+ * affinity.
+ */
+static long calc_concur_shares(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
+{
+	struct task_group *tg = cfs_rq->tg;
+	int nr_cpus = tg_cpus(tg);
+	int nr_tasks = tg_tasks(tg);
+	int nr = min(nr_tasks, nr_cpus);
+	long tg_shares = READ_ONCE(tg->shares);
+	long max_shares = scale_load(sched_prio_to_weight[0]);
+	return __calc_smp_shares(cfs_rq, nr * tg_shares, max_shares);
+}
+
 /*
  * Func: fraction(tg->shares)
  *
@@ -4236,6 +4260,8 @@ static long calc_group_shares(struct cfs
 	if (cgroup_mode == 0)
 		return calc_up_shares(cfs_rq);
 	if (cgroup_mode == 2)
+		return calc_concur_shares(cfs_rq);
+	if (cgroup_mode == 3)
 		return calc_max_shares(cfs_rq);
 
 	return calc_smp_shares(cfs_rq);
@@ -4381,7 +4407,7 @@ static inline bool cfs_rq_is_decayed(str
  */
 static inline void update_tg_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
 {
-	long delta;
+	long delta, dt;
 	u64 now;
 
 	/*
@@ -4403,16 +4429,19 @@ static inline void update_tg_load_avg(st
 		return;
 
 	delta = cfs_rq->avg.load_avg - cfs_rq->tg_load_avg_contrib;
-	if (abs(delta) > cfs_rq->tg_load_avg_contrib / 64) {
+	dt = cfs_rq->h_nr_queued - cfs_rq->tg_tasks_contrib;
+	if (dt || abs(delta) > cfs_rq->tg_load_avg_contrib / 64) {
 		atomic_long_add(delta, &cfs_rq->tg->load_avg);
+		atomic_long_add(dt, &cfs_rq->tg->tasks);
 		cfs_rq->tg_load_avg_contrib = cfs_rq->avg.load_avg;
+		cfs_rq->tg_tasks_contrib = cfs_rq->h_nr_queued;
 		cfs_rq->last_update_tg_load_avg = now;
 	}
 }
 
 static inline void clear_tg_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
 {
-	long delta;
+	long delta, dt;
 	u64 now;
 
 	/*
@@ -4423,8 +4452,11 @@ static inline void clear_tg_load_avg(str
 
 	now = sched_clock_cpu(cpu_of(rq_of(cfs_rq)));
 	delta = 0 - cfs_rq->tg_load_avg_contrib;
+	dt = 0 - cfs_rq->tg_tasks_contrib;
 	atomic_long_add(delta, &cfs_rq->tg->load_avg);
+	atomic_long_add(dt, &cfs_rq->tg->tasks);
 	cfs_rq->tg_load_avg_contrib = 0;
+	cfs_rq->tg_tasks_contrib = 0;
 	cfs_rq->last_update_tg_load_avg = now;
 }
 
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -491,6 +491,8 @@ struct task_group {
 	 * will also be accessed at each tick.
 	 */
 	atomic_long_t		load_avg ____cacheline_aligned;
+	atomic_long_t		tasks;
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED
@@ -720,6 +722,7 @@ struct cfs_rq {
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
 	u64			last_update_tg_load_avg;
 	unsigned long		tg_load_avg_contrib;
+	unsigned long		tg_tasks_contrib;
 	long			propagate;
 	long			prop_runnable_sum;
 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-17 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-17  9:51 [RFC][PATCH 0/8] sched: Flatten the pick Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-17  9:51 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/8] sched/debug: Collapse subsequent CONFIG_SCHED_CLASS_EXT sections Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-17  9:51 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/8] sched/fair: Add cgroup_mode switch Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-17  9:51 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/8] sched/fair: Add cgroup_mode: UP Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-17  9:51 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/8] sched/fair: Add cgroup_mode: MAX Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-17  9:51 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2026-03-17  9:51 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/8] sched/fair: Add newidle balance to pick_task_fair() Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-17  9:51 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/8] sched: Remove sched_class::pick_next_task() Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-17  9:51 ` [RFC][PATCH 8/8] sched/eevdf: Move to a single runqueue Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-17 17:46   ` K Prateek Nayak
2026-03-18  9:02     ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-03-18  9:32       ` K Prateek Nayak

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