Re: [PATCH] sched: cgroup SCHED_IDLE support

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 11:42:05AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> A high-level problem that I see with the proposal is that this would bake
> the current recursive implementation into the interface. The semantics of
> the currently exposed interface, at least the weight based part, is abstract
> and doesn't necessarily dictate how the scheduling is actually performed.
> Adding this would mean that we're now codifying the current behavior of
> fully nested scheduling into the interface.

It's a direct concequence of the hierarchical requirement. The approach
is the only valid one. The other relative controllers that don't do
this, are simply broken.

Absolute controllers have it easier, they can be trivially flattened.

> There are several practical challenges with the current implementation
> caused by the full nesting - e.g. nesting levels are expensive for context
> switch heavy applicaitons often going over >1% per level,

Yeah, and there's numerical problems you run into as well due to
limitied precision.

Just don't do deep hierarchies.

AFAICT it's a simple matter of conflicting requirements, on the one hand
the hierarchical thing is required, on the other hand people seem to
think all this crap is 'free' and create super deep hierarchies and then
complain shit don't work right.