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

[Aaron Lu]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 04:48:14PM -0400, Vineeth Remanan Pillai wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 7:53 AM Vineeth Remanan Pillai
> <vpillai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > Sorry, I misunderstood the fix and I did not initially see the core wide
> > min_vruntime that you tried to maintain in the rq->core. This approach
> > seems reasonable. I think we can fix the potential starvation that you
> > mentioned in the comment by adjusting for the difference in all the children
> > cfs_rq when we set the minvruntime in rq->core. Since we take the lock for
> > both the queues, it should be doable and I am trying to see how we can best
> > do that.
> >
> Attaching here with, the 2 patches I was working on in preparation of v4.
> 
> Patch 1 is an improvement of patch 2 of Aaron where I am propagating the
> vruntime changes to the whole tree.

I didn't see why we need do this.

We only need to have the root level sched entities' vruntime become core
wide since we will compare vruntime for them across hyperthreads. For
sched entities on sub cfs_rqs, we never(at least, not now) compare their
vruntime outside their cfs_rqs.

Thanks,
Aaron

> Patch 2 is an improvement for patch 3 of Aaron where we do resched_curr
> only when the sibling is forced idle.