Re: [PATCH -tip 23/32] sched: Add a per-thread core scheduling interface

From: Chris Hyser
Date: Wed Dec 02 2020 - 16:50:17 EST


On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 06:19:53PM -0500, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> Add a per-thread core scheduling interface which allows a thread to share a
> core with another thread, or have a core exclusively for itself.
>
> ChromeOS uses core-scheduling to securely enable hyperthreading. This cuts
> down the keypress latency in Google docs from 150ms to 50ms while improving
> the camera streaming frame rate by ~3%.
>

Inline is a patch for comment to extend this interface to make it more useful.
This patch would still need to provide doc and selftests updates as well.

-chrish

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