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From: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org,
	peterz@infradead.org, juri.lelli@redhat.com,
	vincent.guittot@linaro.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	yury.norov@gmail.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
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	kprateek.nayak@amd.com, vschneid@redhat.com, iii@linux.ibm.com,
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	dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, mgorman@suse.de, bsegall@google.com,
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Subject: [PATCH v2 17/17] sched/debug: Add debug knobs for steal monitor
Date: Wed,  8 Apr 2026 00:49:50 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260407191950.643549-18-sshegde@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260407191950.643549-1-sshegde@linux.ibm.com>

Add three debug knobs:

steal_mon_period - sampling frequency in milliseconds.
steal_mon_low - lower threshold value (specify percentage * 100)
steal_mon_high - higher threshold value (specify percentage * 100)

Refer to Documentation/scheduler/sched-debug.rst for detailed info.

Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
---
 Documentation/scheduler/sched-debug.rst | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/sched/debug.c                    |  6 ++++++
 kernel/sched/sched.h                    |  2 ++
 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-debug.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-debug.rst
index b5a92a39eccd..288cd2c63224 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-debug.rst
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-debug.rst
@@ -52,3 +52,30 @@ rate for each task.
 
 ``scan_size_mb`` is how many megabytes worth of pages are scanned for
 a given scan.
+
+==================================
+Tunables for generic steal monitor
+==================================
+
+Generic Steal time monitor can be enabled by selecting STEAL_MONITOR in
+sched features. It is disabled by default.
+
+steal_mon_period - sampling frequency in milliseconds.
+How often sampling for steal values happen. This controls how fast scheduler
+acts on detecting the changes to steal time values.
+Default value is 1000 milliseconds.
+
+steal_mon_low - lower threshold value in percentage * 100
+This determines what values should be considered as nil/no steal values.
+When scheduler see steal times below this value, it will try to increase
+the preferred CPUs by 1 core. Having value as zero causes too much oscillations.
+Default value is 200, i.e 2% steal is considered as low threshold.
+
+steal_mon_high - higher threshold value in percentage * 100
+This determines what values should be considered as high steal values.
+When scheduler see steal times higher than this value, it will reduce
+the preferred CPUs by 1 core.
+Default value is 500, i.e 5% steal is considered as high threshold.
+
+Note: When the steal values in between high and low threshold no action is taken
+by scheduler. This is to avoid too much oscillations.
diff --git a/kernel/sched/debug.c b/kernel/sched/debug.c
index 482c86a0ff80..9a6c1ada2cec 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
@@ -612,6 +612,12 @@ static __init int sched_init_debug(void)
 	debugfs_create_u32("migration_cost_ns", 0644, debugfs_sched, &sysctl_sched_migration_cost);
 	debugfs_create_u32("nr_migrate", 0644, debugfs_sched, &sysctl_sched_nr_migrate);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
+	debugfs_create_u32("steal_mon_low", 0644, debugfs_sched, &steal_mon.low_threshold);
+	debugfs_create_u32("steal_mon_high", 0644, debugfs_sched, &steal_mon.high_threshold);
+	debugfs_create_u32("steal_mon_period", 0644, debugfs_sched, &steal_mon.sampling_period_ms);
+#endif
+
 	sched_domains_mutex_lock();
 	update_sched_domain_debugfs();
 	sched_domains_mutex_unlock();
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 337357e48a83..850d944b22f4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -4149,6 +4149,8 @@ struct steal_monitor_t {
 	unsigned int sampling_period_ms;
 };
 
+extern struct steal_monitor_t steal_mon;
+
 static inline bool task_can_run_on_preferred_cpu(struct task_struct *p)
 {
 	return cpumask_intersects(p->cpus_ptr, cpu_preferred_mask);
-- 
2.47.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-04-07 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-07 19:19 [PATCH v2 00/17] sched/paravirt: Introduce cpu_preferred_mask and steal-driven vCPU backoff Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-07 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 01/17] sched/debug: Remove unused schedstats Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-07 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 02/17] sched/docs: Document cpu_preferred_mask and Preferred CPU concept Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-07 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 03/17] cpumask: Introduce cpu_preferred_mask Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-07 20:27   ` Yury Norov
2026-04-08  9:16     ` Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-08 17:57       ` Yury Norov
2026-04-07 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 04/17] sysfs: Add preferred CPU file Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-07 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 05/17] sched/core: allow only preferred CPUs in is_cpu_allowed Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-08  1:05   ` Yury Norov
2026-04-08 12:56     ` Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-08 18:09       ` Yury Norov
2026-04-07 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 06/17] sched/fair: Select preferred CPU at wakeup when possible Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-07 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 07/17] sched/fair: load balance only among preferred CPUs Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-07 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 08/17] sched/rt: Select a preferred CPU for wakeup and pulling rt task Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-07 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 09/17] sched/core: Keep tick on non-preferred CPUs until tasks are out Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-07 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 10/17] sched/core: Push current task from non preferred CPU Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-07 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 11/17] sched/debug: Add migration stats due to non preferred CPUs Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-07 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 12/17] sched/feature: Add STEAL_MONITOR feature Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-07 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 13/17] sched/core: Introduce a simple steal monitor Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-07 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 14/17] sched/core: Compute steal values at regular intervals Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-07 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 15/17] sched/core: Handle steal values and mark CPUs as preferred Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-07 19:19 ` [PATCH v2 16/17] sched/core: Mark the direction of steal values to avoid oscillations Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-07 19:19 ` Shrikanth Hegde [this message]
2026-04-07 19:50 ` [PATCH v2 00/17] sched/paravirt: Introduce cpu_preferred_mask and steal-driven vCPU backoff Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-08 10:14 ` Hillf Danton
2026-04-08 13:49   ` Shrikanth Hegde
2026-04-09  5:15     ` Hillf Danton
2026-04-09 10:27       ` Shrikanth Hegde

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