2022-03-16 11:52:59

by chenying

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Subject: Re: [External] Re: Subject: [PATCH] sched/fair: prioritize normal task over sched_idle task with vruntime offset

在 2022/3/15 8:30, Josh Don 写道:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 3:07 AM chenying <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> If I set the sched_idle_vruntime_offset to a relatively small value
>> (e.g. 10 minutes), can this issues be avoided?
>
> That's still long enough to cause lockups.
>
> Is the issue that you have a large number of sched_idle entities, and
> the occasional latency sensitive thing that wakes up for a short
> duration? Have you considered approaching this from the other
> direction (ie. if we have a latency sensitive thing wake onto a cpu
> running only sched idle stuff, we could change entity placement to
> position the latency sensitive thing further left on the timeline,
> akin to !GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS).

I think this may not guarantee that latency sensitive tasks are always
to the left of idle tasks. And it may get complicated if a
latency-sensitive task is woken up onto a cpu which there are already
multiple latency-sensitive tasks and sched_idle tasks.