Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Paravirt Scheduling (Dynamic vcpu priority management)

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:52:33 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> We could possibly add a new sched class that has a dynamic priority.

It wouldn't need to be a new sched class. This could work with just a
task_struct flag.

It would only need to be checked in pick_next_task() and
try_to_wake_up(). It would require that the shared memory has to be
allocated by the host kernel and always present (unlike rseq). But this
coming from a virtio device driver, that shouldn't be a problem.

If this flag is set on current, then the first thing that
pick_next_task() should do is to see if it needs to change current's
priority and policy (via a callback to the driver). And then it can
decide what task to pick, as if current was boosted, it could very well
be the next task again.

In try_to_wake_up(), if the task waking up has this flag set, it could
boost it via an option set by the virtio device. This would allow it to
preempt the current process if necessary and get on the CPU. Then the
guest would be require to lower its priority if it the boost was not
needed.

Hmm, this could work.

-- Steve