Re: [PATCH RESEND] sched/fair: Only increment deadline once on yield

Fernand Sieber
2025-09-16T13:35:59Z

On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 01:37:46PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Have you tried:
>
> se->vruntime = se->deadline;
> se->deadline += calc_delta_fair(se->slice, se);
>
> instead?

Thanks, that is better, see results below.
Forfeiting the vruntime allows competing tasks to make more progress.
Both approaches eliminate the problematic run delays.
I'll send out an updated version of the patch.

Repro:
taskset -c 1 yield_loop &
taskset -c 1 stress --cpu 1 --timeout 30s &

With yield loop:
int main() {
time_t start = time(NULL);
while (time(NULL) - start < 5) {
sched_yield();
}
while (1) {}
return 0;
}

Results (perf sched latency):
vanilla:
stress: 2368ms runtime, max delay 25268ms (!)
yield_loop: 27637ms runtime, max delay 2ms

deadline clamping:
stress: 4629ms runtime, max delay 2ms
yield_loop: 4632ms runtime, max delay 2ms

vruntime forfeiting:
stress: 7117ms runtime, max delay 2ms
yield_loop: 2144ms runtime, max delay 2ms

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