Re: HT scheduler: is it really correct? or is it feature of HT?

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

On Thu, 19 May 2005 08:46 pm, Tetsuji "Maverick" Rai wrote:
> I've done a temporary minor hacking, which tells kernel only the half
> value of nice in all processes.  Actually idle percentage was lowered,
> but the response of the main application became slower (as a matter of
> course.)
>
> I'm not sure which is better..if possible I want to take advantages of
> each one :)   Am I expecting too much?

Yes you are. Hyperthreading (currently depending on workload) only gives you 
on average 15-25% more cpu with multiple threads. You can't get something for 
nothing. Either the nice 0 task runs slower because a low priority task is 
bound to the sibling, or it runs at the same speed and the low priority task 
runs for less. If you want the nice 19 task to use more cpu run it at nice 0 
- because this is effectively what you are trying to do. If you want more cpu 
you need extra true physical cpus, not logical cores.

Your code does not do what you think it is doing either. If you want to change 
the bias between nice levels across logical cores search the code for where 
the value of sd->per_cpu_gain is set. It is currently set to 25% and you want 
to increase it (although as I said you will derive no real world benefit as 
your nice 0 task will just slow down).

Cheers,
Con