Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: Reschedule the cfs_rq when current is ineligible

[Honglei Wang]

On 2024/6/6 20:39, Chunxin Zang wrote:

> Hi honglei
>
> Recently, I conducted testing of multiple cgroups using version 2. Version 2 ensures the
> RUN_TO_PARITY feature, so the test results are somewhat better under the
> NO_RUN_TO_PARITY feature.
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240529141806.16029-1-spring.cxz@xxxxxxxxx/T/
>
> The testing environment I used still employed 4 cores,  4 groups of hackbench (160 processes)
> and 1 cyclictest. If too many cgroups or processes are created on the 4 cores, the test
> results will fluctuate severely, making it difficult to discern any differences.
>
> The organization of cgroups was in two forms:
> 1. Within the same level cgroup, 10 sub-cgroups were created, with each cgroup having
>    an average of 16 processes.
>
>                                    EEVDF      PATCH  EEVDF-NO_PARITY  PATCH-NO_PARITY
>
>     LNICE(-19)    # Avg Latencies: 00572      00347      00502      00218
>
>     LNICE(0)      # Avg Latencies: 02262      02225      02442      02321
>
>     LNICE(19)     # Avg Latencies: 03132      03422      03333      03489
>
> 2. In the form of a binary tree, 8 leaf cgroups were established, with a depth of 4.
>    On average, each cgroup had 20 processes
>
>                                    EEVDF      PATCH  EEVDF-NO_PARITY  PATCH-NO_PARITY
>
>     LNICE(-19)    # Avg Latencies: 00601      00592      00510      00400
>
>     LNICE(0)      # Avg Latencies: 02703      02170      02381      02126
>
>     LNICE(19)     # Avg Latencies: 04773      03387      04478      03611
>
> Based on the test results, there is a noticeable improvement in scheduling latency after
> applying the patch in scenarios involving multiple cgroups.
>
>
> thanks
> Chunxin
Hi Chunxin,

Thanks for sharing the test result. It looks helpful at least in this 
cgroups scenario. I'm still curious which point of the two changes helps 
more in your test, just as mentioned at the very first mail of this thread.

Thanks,
Honglei