Re: [PATCH 10/10] sched/fair: Implement an EEVDF like policy

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Wed Mar 08 2023 - 08:39:30 EST


On Wed, 2023-03-08 at 09:39 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> Curiosity got the best of me...

Remember this little bugger, allegedly distilled from a real
application control thread starvation issue?

6.3.0.g8ca09d5-master
homer:/root # time taskset -c 3 starve
expecting to receive 10000000 signals

real 0m24.424s
user 0m4.468s
sys 0m18.957s

6.3.0.g8ca09d5-eevdf
homer:/root # time taskset -c 3 starve
expecting to receive 10000000 signals
zzzzzz
^C

real 15m24.115s
user 0m3.078s
sys 0m0.000s


#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>

volatile unsigned long loop;

void handler(int n)
{
if (loop > 0)
--loop;
}

static int child(void)
{
pid_t ppid = getppid();

sleep(1);
while (1)
kill(ppid, SIGUSR1);
return 0;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
pid_t child_pid;
int r;

loop = argc > 1 ? strtoul(argv[1], NULL, 10) : 10000000;
printf("expecting to receive %lu signals\n", loop);

if ((child_pid = fork()) == 0)
exit(child());

signal(SIGUSR1, handler);
while (loop)
sleep(1);
r = kill(child_pid, SIGTERM);
waitpid(child_pid, NULL, 0);
return 0;
}