From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753525Ab0HZSP7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:15:59 -0400 Received: from smtp.polymtl.ca ([132.207.4.11]:38818 "EHLO smtp.polymtl.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753000Ab0HZSOl (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:14:41 -0400 Message-Id: <20100826180908.648103531@efficios.com> User-Agent: quilt/0.48-1 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:09:08 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: LKML , Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , Thomas Gleixner , Mathieu Desnoyers , Tony Lindgren , Mike Galbraith Subject: [RFC PATCH 00/11] sched: CFS low-latency features X-Poly-FromMTA: (test.casi.polymtl.ca [132.207.72.60]) at Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:13:39 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Following the findings I presented a few months ago (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/18/13) about CFS having large vruntime spread issues, Peter Zijlstra and I pursued the discussion and the implementation effort (my work on this is funded by Nokia). I recently put the result together and came up with this patchset, combining both his work and mine. With this patchset, I got the following results with wakeup-latency.c (a 10ms periodic timer), running periodic-fork.sh, Xorg, make -j3 and firefox (playing a youtube video), with Xorg moving terminal windows around, in parallel on a UP system (links to the test program source in the dyn min_vruntime patch). The Xorg interactivity is very good with the new features enabled, but was poor originally with the vanilla mainline scheduler. The 10ms timer delays are as follow: 2.6.35.2 mainline* with low-latency features** maximum latency: 34465.2 µs 8261.4 µs average latency: 6445.5 µs 211.2 µs missed timer events: yes no * 2.6.35.2 mainline test needs to run periodic-fork.sh for a few minutes first to let it rip the spread apart. ** low-latency features: with the patchset applied and CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y (with debugfs mounted in /sys/debugfs) for opt in DYN_MIN_VRUNTIME \ NO_FAIR_SLEEPERS FAIR_SLEEPERS_INTERACTIVE FAIR_SLEEPERS_TIMER \ INTERACTIVE TIMER \ INTERACTIVE_FORK_EXPEDITED TIMER_FORK_EXPEDITED; do echo $opt > /sys/debugfs/sched_features; done These patches are designed to allow individual enabling of each feature and to make sure that the object size of sched.o does not grow when the features are disabled on a CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=n kernel. Optimization of the try_to_wake_up() fast path when features are enabled could be done later by merging some of these features together. This patchset is based on 2.6.35.2. Feedback is welcome, Thanks, Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com