Re: RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for mainline kernels

Siddha, Suresh B
2007-03-15T17:47:06Z

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 05:05:13PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Thursday 15 March 2007 13:31, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> > Just to see the % increase in number of context switches, I ran 8 infinite
> > loops (simple while(1); 's) and with 2.6.21-rc3 I see ~70 context switches
> > every second, whereas with RSDL I see ~530 context switches.
>
> Thanks. If it's just that then scaling rr interval with cpus somewhat would
> help. If you could, the following patch just to test might confirm that.
> -#define RR_INTERVAL ((6 * HZ / 1001) + 1)
> +#define RR_INTERVAL ((12 * HZ / 1001) + 1)

Context switches now are ~370 per second. Still much above the regular ~70
we see in the mainline.

why do you say the rr_interval needs to be scaled with cpus? The basic point
in RSDL is, if we have more than one same priority task on a single logic
cpu, context switch happens every RR_INTERVAL (6 or 12 msec) whereas in
mainline it happens every 100 msec.

We need to minimize these context switches.

thanks,
suresh