Re: [RFC PATCH v3 00/16] Core scheduling v3

[Aaron Lu]

Hi Tim & Julien,

On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 11:30:20AM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> On 8/7/19 10:10 AM, Tim Chen wrote:
> 
> > 3) Load balancing between CPU cores
> > -----------------------------------
> > Say if one CPU core's sibling threads get forced idled
> > a lot as it has mostly incompatible tasks between the siblings,
> > moving the incompatible load to other cores and pulling
> > compatible load to the core could help CPU utilization.
> > 
> > So just considering the load of a task is not enough during
> > load balancing, task compatibility also needs to be considered.
> > Peter has put in mechanisms to balance compatible tasks between
> > CPU thread siblings, but not across cores.
> > 
> > Status:
> > I have not seen patches on this issue.  This issue could lead to
> > large variance in workload performance based on your luck
> > in placing the workload among the cores.
> > 
> 
> I've made an attempt in the following two patches to address
> the load balancing of mismatched load between the siblings.
> 
> It is applied on top of Aaron's patches:
> - sched: Fix incorrect rq tagged as forced idle
> - wrapper for cfs_rq->min_vruntime
>   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190725143127.GB992@aaronlu/
> - core vruntime comparison
>   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190725143248.GC992@aaronlu/

So both of you are working on top of my 2 patches that deal with the
fairness issue, but I had the feeling Tim's alternative patches[1] are
simpler than mine and achieves the same result(after the force idle tag
fix), so unless there is something I missed, I think we should go with
the simpler one?

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b7a83fcb-5c34-9794-5688-55c52697fd84@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/