Re: [PATCH RFC] sched: Add a per-thread core scheduling interface(Internet mail)

From: benbjiang(蒋彪)
Date: Thu May 21 2020 - 00:23:24 EST




> On May 21, 2020, at 6:26 AM, Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Add a per-thread core scheduling interface which allows a thread to tag
> itself and enable core scheduling. Based on discussion at OSPM with
> maintainers, we propose a prctl(2) interface accepting values of 0 or 1.
> 1 - enable core scheduling for the task.
> 0 - disable core scheduling for the task.
>
> Special cases:
> (1)
> The core-scheduling patchset contains a CGroup interface as well. In
> order for us to respect users of that interface, we avoid overriding the
> tag if a task was CGroup-tagged because the task becomes inconsistent
> with the CGroup tag. Instead return -EBUSY.
>
> (2)
> If a task is prctl-tagged, allow the CGroup interface to override
> the task's tag.
>
> ChromeOS will use 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%.
Hi,
Are the performance improvements compared to the hyperthreading disabled scenario or not?
Could you help to explain how the keypress latency improvement comes with core-scheduling?

Thanks a lot.

Regards,
Jiang