[RFC PATCH 0/2] sched/eevdf: Rate limit task migration

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Tue Sep 05 2023 - 14:05:16 EST


Implement task migration rate limiting to speed up workload patterns
such as hackbench which trigger frequent migrations.

The first patch implements a simple rate limiting of 1 migration per
2ms. The second patch implements adaptative task migration rate
limiting.

I would be interested to hear feedback on this approach, especially
about how it behaves on various workloads.

Thanks,

Mathieu

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Swapnil Sapkal <Swapnil.Sapkal@xxxxxxx>
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Mathieu Desnoyers (2):
sched: rate limit migrations to 1 per 2ms per task
sched: Implement adaptative rate limiting of task migrations

include/linux/sched.h | 4 ++++
kernel/sched/core.c | 3 +++
kernel/sched/fair.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/sched/sched.h | 4 ++++
4 files changed, 51 insertions(+)

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