Re: [PATCH v3] sched: async unthrottling for cfs bandwidth

[Josh Don]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 1:12 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 09:59:23AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 09:57:09AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 11:35:48AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 11:37:14AM -0800, Josh Don wrote:
> > > > > Yep, this tradeoff feels "best", but there are some edge cases where
> > > > > this could potentially disrupt fairness. For example, if we have
> > > > > non-trivial W, a lot of cpus to iterate through for dispatching remote
> > > > > unthrottle, and quota is small. Doesn't help that the timer is pinned
> > > > > so that this will continually hit the same cpu.
> > > >
> > > > We could -- if we wanted to -- manually rotate the timer around the
> > > > relevant CPUs. Doing that sanely would require a bit of hrtimer surgery
> > > > though I'm afraid.
> > >
> > > Here; something like so should enable us to cycle the bandwidth timer.
> > > Just need to figure out a way to find another CPU or something.
> >
> > Some more preparation...
>
> And then I think something like so.. That migrates the timer to the CPU
> of the first throttled entry -- possibly not the best heuristic, but its
> the simplest.
>
> NOTE: none of this has seen a compiler up close.

Thanks Peter, this overall looks good to me. One question though: I
was expecting to see that when we migrate the timer, we adjust expiry
to account for clock shift between cpus. Was this just not part of the
initial draft here, or is this somehow already accounted for?